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Show HARDING WIDOW CALLEDBY DEATH AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS WIFE OF LATE PRESIDENT DIES AT MARION Shock of Husbands Passing and Ordeal Or-deal of Public Funeral Is La'd as Foundation For Final lll'ness Marlon, O, M--s. Florence Kling Tanling, widow of the late president died at" White Oaks farm, November twenty-first. Weakened by the shock of her husband's death and the ordeal of his public funeral a year and a halt ago, Mrs. Harding was unable to throw off the recurrence of the malady mal-ady which had brought her to the very gates of death in 1922 at the White House. . She became seriously ill late in October. Save for brief intervals of improvement, her strength ebbed gradually until the end. With her were her brother, Clifford' Clif-ford' Kling, of Florida; Mrs. Charles E. Sawyer, widow of President Harding's personnal 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 dur-ing her long illness, announced her death. His eyes were filled with tears as he said simply. "She has died; she went peacefully and quietly. quiet-ly. I may have a formal statement later." Mrs Harding passed into a coma on Monday morning and early Tuesday Tues-day she was unconscious. She was ill two weeks before the gravity . of her condition became known outside White Oaks, the sanitarium sani-tarium and country estate of the Sawyers. Then on the morning of November 3, Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, after a consultation con-sultation with Dr. J. C. Wood, Cleveland, Cleve-land, abdominal specialist, issued 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 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 Hard-ing had been a member of Epworth Methodist church since girlhood. |
