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Show A WIDOW WITH A RECORD She Has Helped at Seven Hundred Funerals. READING. Pa.. Nov. lti.-.Mrs Emma .1 Yocum. a widow, agrrl (. 1ms possibly no equal In ihc I nltcd Stnlen In her line of work Sh- lives on a forty-acre f irm adjoining ad-joining St Michael's church (German Reformed and Lnthornm about (lftet n inilos north of thlw li- In hr career She lias fit her niinp or read the funeral .service al 700 funerals. She ha.s heon a widow four years nnd in Hint lime has mimr or oftli inter) ai ninety-seven funerals Besides singing and reading the burial service she Is sexton of the church for both congregations, sweeps the church rings ihe hell for Sunday service, for six months of the year rings the bell every workday at 11 o'clock to notify the neighboring farmers at wrirk In the fields to omc In to dinner, and manages tho forty-acre farm belonging to the church k. ping four cows and two horses A hired man dot - t be Is luir of the farm Mrs. Yocum Is a pleasant-fared, happy mortal well liked hy all 1 n Iglnallj sli-married sli-married a country church organist." She led the choir. Then she began singing for church funerals Next she sang at house funerals and al tin- grave She was tin- moth'-i f r - children. Her two sons did not take in music, hut her twin daughters Carrie and Lena, did. When of ag.. they married happily, hut continued to assist their parents In r burch mush- Mr Yocum was sickly and frequently could not go to funeral:.. ' m of the girls took his place at the organ, unci when he died they permanently officiated at the organ, and do so yet, assisting their mother win-never possible. When th regular clergyman has not the 'Inn 10 attend to the funeral, es-peclall) es-peclall) of children, Mrs Yocum and her daughters furnish the vocal and Instrumental music and Mrs V m reads the burial service from the church hook, going ten miles occasionally to a funeral. |