Show YOUNG foung MOTHER GOI GOES LS TO BEYOND in a heroic struggle with the grim reaper extending over several weeks mrs natine benson decker wife of mr alvin decker of this city succumbed to what had appeared for severed several days to be inevitable on friday last at the age of twenty five from heart trouble mrs decke was born and reared here the daughter of mr alfr and mrs james A benson both of whom are deceased since the death of her mother when she was a very small child she and her younger sister phoebe have lived with mr air and sirs mrs silas J ward who have loved and cared for them as though they were their own on several before and since her marriage her life has been despaired of but in her last illness all that friends and loved ones could do was of no avail she is survived by her husband and two sons one about five years old and the other only a few months three brothers and three sisters and her foster parents as well as a host bost of other relatives and friends who feel deeply the loss of such a loveable alove love able young woman beautiful funeral services attended by an exceptionally large number of friends and sympathizers were held in the tabernacle on sunday at two p in with bishop H L adams presiding the speakers were L LN N marsden S A Mat matheson beson F C van buren and david matheson mrs airs bruhn read a resolution of sympathy and regret from the primary association iu in which mrs decker was an officer cerr and also beautiful sentiments from her own pen special musical numbers in addition to these by the choir were nearer my god to thee by a male quartet consisting of L IN marsden jr scott matheson clair rowley and F C van buren and a duet 1 I cling to thee by van buren and matheson Mi eson |