Sarah Stewart, wife of Rev. Walter
E. Mason of Townsend, passed away at their home on Thursday. She had been
seriously ill for several months but the end came suddenly.
Mrs. Mason was born near Stoney
Creek, her parents being William Stewart and Martha Stafford. She leaves
one brother, Frederick Stewart of Corinth.
Besides her husband there are six
surviving children:
William E. and Wallace H. Mason of Townsend,
Mrs. J.
Alex Wallace of Simcoe, Mrs. F. Farrow of Hamilton,
Mrs. W. Kimball of
Hyde Park, and Mrs. Geo. A. Ronson of Park Hill.
One daughter, Sarah,
passed away in childhood.
She
leaves also twenty-one grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
A
very large gathering of relatives and friends from many parts of Western
Ontario expressed by their presence and in floral tributes their high
regard for the deceased.
Rev.
E. J. Whan of Villa Nova conducted the funeral service at the residence on
Sunday afternoon, and interment was made in Greenwood Cemetery, Waterford.
Mr.
and Mrs. Mason have spent most of the last 25 years in pastoral work in
Middlesex County, where they have a large circle of friends, but returned
to their old home for their declining years.
