Obituaries for Susan Martin Richardson

Obituaries for Susan Martin Richardson

"G. Wm. Richardsons' [sic] Mother Died in West," Clarinda (Ia.) Herald, 19 February 1925, page unknown:

A telegram Tuesday to G. Wm. Richardson brought the news that his mother, Mrs. Wm. Richardson, had passed away early Tuesday morning at her home in Seattle, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson had left but a few days previous for Florida, being accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rose of Shenandoah, one object being to visit Mrs. Richardson's brother who has been in ill health for some time. They were scheduled to reach Miami Saturday and the notification of his mother's death which was forwarded from Clarinda cut short their stay in the southland.

The remains are expected to arrive Saturday evening and the funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 from the G. Wm. Richardson home, conducted by Dr. A. B. Marshall, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have wired that they will reach Clarinda Saturday morning.

The day after the new [sic] came from Seattle, another grandson, Kenneth Lyle Cassat, made his appearance in the Richardson family and thus two happening [sic] of opposite effects concerned the family at about the same time.

"Roll of the Silent: Susan Martin Richardson," Clarinda (Ia.) Herald, 23 February 1925, page unknown:

Mrs. William Richardson, of Seattle, Washington, was buried from the home of her son, G. Wm. Richardson in Clarinda, on Sunday afternoon. The funeral services were conducted by the Presbyterian pastor, Rev. A. B. Marshall D. D.

The home of Mrs. Richardson's childhood was Bradford, Vermont, where she was born June 7, 1827, and married March 2nd 1847. After her marriage her home for a time was upon a farm near Chicago. From there she moved some years later to Iowa, and then to Nebraska. Much of the time since the death of her husband she has resided in Seattle with her son Mark and family. Her places of residence have thus spanned this country of ours; and her life has witnessed the introduction of the railroad, the telegraph, the telephone, the wireless, the radio, the airship, the submarine, besides the bicycle and automobile and many other important inventions of modern times.

She was a great mother. Her children to the third and fourth generations rise up to call her blessed. She was a member of the church for more than three quarters of a century, and a shining light in the Master's service.

She was the mother of seven children, four sons and three daughters, four of whom have passed on before. The living children are Mark of Seattle, Horace of Paulina, Iowa, and G. William of Clarinda.

Her death was unexpected, occurring while Mr. G. Wm. Richardson was in Florida visiting an invalid brother-in-law. But he returned home in time to be here for the funeral, the body having been brough [sic] from the west, to rest beside the grave of her husband in the Richardson lot in Clarinda cemetery.


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