Mrs. Jane Larew, 96, Long-Time Haderan, Dies

Mrs. Jane Larew, a Madera county resident since 1891, died at her North G st. home yesterday afternoon at the age of 96. She had been in ill health for several years.

Funeral services for Mrs. Larew will be held at 2 p m. tomorrow at the Jay Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Edgar Bradley of the Madera Methodist church will be in charge of the services and graveside services at Arbor Vitae cemetery will be directed by the Madera Rcbekah lodge. Mrs. Larew to the county 54 years ago following her marriage to the late W. H. Larew, who served as the County’s district attorney for several years.

She was active in local affairs from the beginning of her residence here, holding a charter membership in the Rebekah lodge and attending the Methodist church since its inception. Early California Family The long-time resident was a member of an early California family, coming to the state with her parents from her birthplace in Chattanooga county, Georgia, on the second train to cross the prairie after the completion of the Union Pacific railroad.

Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I Joseph Pratt, first settled in Mariposa county, where Mrs. Larew grew up on what is still known in a farming area as the Prau ranch. She met her future husband in that county and the couple was married there in 1880.

The first Larcw home in Madera, to which the couple moved the year following their marriage was on North B st. near the site of the present First Methodist church. Although their first home burned to the ground several years ago, the large frame house where the family later lived still stands on East Yosemite ave. Mrs. Larew is survived by three children, a son, James, of Oakland, and two daughters, Mrs. Christine Parkes and Mrs. Virginia Weber, both of Madera; five grandchildren. Mrs. John D Gordon and Kenneth Parkes of Madera, Matter F, Larew of Oakland, Raynor L. Parkes of Long Beach, and Richard Rue of Los Angeles; and four greatgrandchildren.

MRS. JANR LAREW