The Archive · 1939

Service at Berkeley

In accordance with Dr. Fearn's Inst wishes, the funeral services in Berkeley were as "cheerful" as pore sible under the circumstances, The services were held at the home her niece, Mrs. Malcolm Moss, on the morning of May 1 with members. the family receiving more than 100 of Dr. Fearn's old. friends, mostly ex-Shanghailanders, who puld" their Inst respects to her as she lay ner light grey caskes with its" satin fining and covered" with pall. of Pink roses and lilies. of the valley in life she was dressed all white, Her book, the story of her fe, was placed at the foot of her shel, encircled by a wreath of iFdehias (her favourite flower) sent her collaborator, Miss Frances Russell, who ill in hospital atthe ume, Wat unable 10 attend, The simple Congregational Church services were conducted by Doon James Mullenberg, of the" Paeiic 'School of Religion' in Berkeley, who also ead exerpts from her favour poems, Carl Crow's foreword to he book and the last paragraph from My Days of Strength, So with one thing qngincrs ott started, Gut fork for one year extended into.

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