Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-11-02 | Page 7 | Rites for Page will be Held in Boyhood Church

RITES FOR PAGE ? WILL BE HELD If J BDYHQQDGHURGH All Flag in Virginia at Half Suff for Distil., guished Diplomat and ' Author; ' Funeral Friday RICHMOND, Va- Nor. I. Within In Old Fork church, where h waa christened, near pis boyhood home, "Oakland,' Ilanovar county, th funeral services of Thoniaa Nelaon Page, author, au-thor, lawyer and ambaaaador to Italy, will be liold at 13 o'clock tomorrow morning and later In tha day hi body will b laid o raet baald hla wife In Washington, D. C. Mr. Pag died luddenly of "acul cardiac dilation" yaaterday while walk-, Irig with hla altr-ln-law, Mr. Koaa-wlt Koaa-wlt Page, In th garden of hi tat, which I altuated upon an original grant In th town of England to th "Colonial magnate. Thomaa Nelaon." Service at the church will be lm-pl. lm-pl. member of th family aald. and at noon th body will be placed aboard a northbound train at Aihland. At o'clock final rite will be aald at th grave in Washington. Flaga on all publlo buildinga In the atata ware at halfmaat today In respect to the distinguished dis-tinguished Virginian. Recently Mr. Page, after many months of work, completed a biography of Dante and on Tuesday had received a letter from Wood row Wilson complimenting compli-menting him on th book. He suffered an attack of pneumonia laat winter and at that time hie condition waa con. sldered aerloua, but within a few week he again waa at work on the biography. biog-raphy. Born April il, 1161, the eon of Major John and Elisabeth Nelaon Page, Mr. Page spent hi boyhood day In Virginia. Vir-ginia. Ha later attended Washington collage, Waahlngton, and lee university univer-sity and the University of Virginia and then practiced law In Richmond. In ll ha moved to Waahlngton. I After marrying Mlaa Anne Seddon Bruce In last, Mr. Page resumed hie literary work, which he had begun while a atudent, and finally devoted hla entire time to writing. Most of hla stories, which attained wide popularity, popu-larity, war of Southern life. Following the death of hla wife, Mr. Page went abroad and In 1M1 he mar-rled mar-rled Mra. Florence Lathrop Field widow wid-ow of Henry Field of Chicago, Bhe died June (. 121. The author had come to hi Virginia home, where h planned to spend th remaining daye of hi life, to begin work on hla memoirs mem-oirs aa ambassador to Italy during tn Wilson administration. Mr. TUge Is survived by two dnngh--ters, Mrs. Algernon Barnaby. of Kng-land, Kng-land, and Mra. Thomaa Lindsay of Boa-ton, Boa-ton, and a brother, Kosewell Page, of