Show H HARDING WIDOW CAlLED LED BY DEATH AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS WIFE OF LATe PRESIDENT DIES AT MARION Shock of Husbands Husband Passing and anet Ordeal Ordeal Or Or- deal of Public Funeral I Is Laid Laida a as Foundation For Final JUnen eu I Marlon 0 O. Mrs Florence Kling Harding Hartling widow of the late president d od at White Oaks farm fann November twenty Weakened by the shock of her husbands husband's death and the ordeal of his public funeral a year and nd a half hall ago Mrs Harding was unable to throw off oft the recurrence of the malady malady mal mal- ady which had brought her to the very gates of death in 1922 at the White House She became becam seriously ill late in October Save Sa for brief briet intervals of improvement her strength ebbed gradually until th the tha end erd With her were her brother Clifford Clifford Clif Clif- ford tord Kling of Florida Mrs Charles E. E Sawyer widow of President Harding physician Dr Carl W W. Sawyer and George Georga P P. Christian former f secretary to the late president Dr nr Sawyer who had been with Mrs Harding almost constantly during dur duro ingher ing her long illness announced her death His Iila eyes were filled with tears tea as he said imply simply She has died she went peacefully and qui quiet quick ly Iy I may may have a formal statement later Mrs Harding passed into a coma on Monday morning and early Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day she was unconscious She was ill III two wo weeks before the gravity of her condition became known outside White Whito Oaks the tani- tani sani and country est estate te of at the Sawyers Then on on the morning of November 3 3 Dr Carl W W. Sawyer after a consultation consultation con con- with Dr J. J C. C Wood Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land abdominal specialist issued a a bulletin describing her condition as alarming Immediately messages of sympathy and hope for a rapid recovery began pouring in from all parts of the country The funeral service e were were held l' l lat at Epworth Methodist Episcopal church Rev Jesse Jess Swank pastor of the church who conducted the funeral services for President Harding was in charge chare lIe He was assisted by Rev George M. M Landis of which Mr Harding was a n member Mrs Hard Harding ing had been a member of Epworth Methodist l church since girlhood |