Show INNS WID va CALLED BY DEATH arter AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS WIFE OF LATE PRESIDENT DIES AT MARION hock of husbands passing and ordeal of public fon funeral ral Is laid as foundation for final illness marion 0 j mrs florence kling harding widow of the late president died at white oaks farm november twenty first weakened by tho the shock of her husbands death arid the ordeal of his bis public funeral a year and a half ago mrs harding was unable to throw off the recurrence of the malady which had brought her to the very gates of death in 1922 1921 at the white house av she became seriously ill late in october save for brief intervals of improvement her strength ebbed gradually until the end ath her were her brother clifford kling of florida mrs charles E sawyer widow of president hardings personnel pers onnal physician dr carl W sawyer and george P christian former secretary to the late president dr sawyer who had been with mrs harding almost constantly during her long willress ill ress announced her death ilia his eyes w were ere filled with teas tears as he said ninfi simply rily she has died she went peacefully and quietly I 1 I 1 may have a formal statement later mrs harding passed inan a coma on monday morning and early toes day she was unconscious she was ill two weeks before the gravity of her condition became known outside white oaks the sanitarium and country estate of the sawyers then on the morning of november 3 dr carl W sawyer after a consultation tul sul tation with dr J C wood cleveland abdominal specialist issued a bulletin describing her bar c condition ondi tion as Im alarming immediately messages of sympathy and hope for a rapid recovery began pouring in from all parts of the country the funeral service were held at epworth methodist episcopal church rev jesse swank pastor of the church who conducted the funeral services for president harding was n charge he was assisted by rev george M landis of which mr harding was a member mrs harding had bad been a member of epworth methodist church since girlhood |