Obituary from the Saguache Paper
Funeral services are being held at 3 o'clock this Thursday afternoon at the Wells-Burress Chapel for Mrs. Martha E. Gilder, who died peacefully from a heart attack Tuesday morning, August 10th at her home in Saguache. Rev. Harry L. McDaniels, pastor of the Church of God in the Mirage district, will officiate and interment will be in the Rito Alto cemetery.
Mrs. B. J. Werner, daughter of Mrs. Gilder, came to Saguach early Tuesday morning to visit her mother and found the doors all locked. She went to the Lockett home to see if they had a key that might fit the lock. Cpl. Clarence Hammel went over with her and unpon unlocking the door found Mrs. Gilder still in death. Mrs. Gilder apparently felt the attack coming on and laid down on the couch and removed her glasses which she still held in her hand.
Mrs. Werner had visited her mother the previous night and she seemed to be in usual health. Mrs. Maud Lockett, her neighbor, noticed smoke coming out of the chimney between 7 and 7:30 that morning. They found a chicken cooking in the pressure cooker and a pudding baking in the oven.
Mrs. Gilder has been in Colorado the past 25 years coming to locate in this community from Missouri. Her husband preceeded her in death in 1935.
In her early life she bacame a minister of the Church of God and continued her ministerial duties as much as her health permitted up until the time of her death.
She leaves a large number of devoted children and other relatives and a host of friends to mourn her passing.
Funeral services are being held at 3 o'clock this Thursday afternoon at the Wells-Burress Chapel for Mrs. Martha E. Gilder, who died peacefully from a heart attack Tuesday morning, August 10th at her home in Saguache. Rev. Harry L. McDaniels, pastor of the Church of God in the Mirage district, will officiate and interment will be in the Rito Alto cemetery.
Mrs. B. J. Werner, daughter of Mrs. Gilder, came to Saguach early Tuesday morning to visit her mother and found the doors all locked. She went to the Lockett home to see if they had a key that might fit the lock. Cpl. Clarence Hammel went over with her and unpon unlocking the door found Mrs. Gilder still in death. Mrs. Gilder apparently felt the attack coming on and laid down on the couch and removed her glasses which she still held in her hand.
Mrs. Werner had visited her mother the previous night and she seemed to be in usual health. Mrs. Maud Lockett, her neighbor, noticed smoke coming out of the chimney between 7 and 7:30 that morning. They found a chicken cooking in the pressure cooker and a pudding baking in the oven.
Mrs. Gilder has been in Colorado the past 25 years coming to locate in this community from Missouri. Her husband preceeded her in death in 1935.
In her early life she bacame a minister of the Church of God and continued her ministerial duties as much as her health permitted up until the time of her death.
She leaves a large number of devoted children and other relatives and a host of friends to mourn her passing.
Obituary from the Saguache Paper
Funeral services are being held at 3 o'clock this Thursday afternoon at the Wells-Burress Chapel for Mrs. Martha E. Gilder, who died peacefully from a heart attack Tuesday morning, August 10th at her home in Saguache. Rev. Harry L. McDaniels, pastor of the Church of God in the Mirage district, will officiate and interment will be in the Rito Alto cemetery.
Mrs. B. J. Werner, daughter of Mrs. Gilder, came to Saguach early Tuesday morning to visit her mother and found the doors all locked. She went to the Lockett home to see if they had a key that might fit the lock. Cpl. Clarence Hammel went over with her and unpon unlocking the door found Mrs. Gilder still in death. Mrs. Gilder apparently felt the attack coming on and laid down on the couch and removed her glasses which she still held in her hand.
Mrs. Werner had visited her mother the previous night and she seemed to be in usual health. Mrs. Maud Lockett, her neighbor, noticed smoke coming out of the chimney between 7 and 7:30 that morning. They found a chicken cooking in the pressure cooker and a pudding baking in the oven.
Mrs. Gilder has been in Colorado the past 25 years coming to locate in this community from Missouri. Her husband preceeded her in death in 1935.
In her early life she bacame a minister of the Church of God and continued her ministerial duties as much as her health permitted up until the time of her death.
She leaves a large number of devoted children and other relatives and a host of friends to mourn her passing.
Funeral services are being held at 3 o'clock this Thursday afternoon at the Wells-Burress Chapel for Mrs. Martha E. Gilder, who died peacefully from a heart attack Tuesday morning, August 10th at her home in Saguache. Rev. Harry L. McDaniels, pastor of the Church of God in the Mirage district, will officiate and interment will be in the Rito Alto cemetery.
Mrs. B. J. Werner, daughter of Mrs. Gilder, came to Saguach early Tuesday morning to visit her mother and found the doors all locked. She went to the Lockett home to see if they had a key that might fit the lock. Cpl. Clarence Hammel went over with her and unpon unlocking the door found Mrs. Gilder still in death. Mrs. Gilder apparently felt the attack coming on and laid down on the couch and removed her glasses which she still held in her hand.
Mrs. Werner had visited her mother the previous night and she seemed to be in usual health. Mrs. Maud Lockett, her neighbor, noticed smoke coming out of the chimney between 7 and 7:30 that morning. They found a chicken cooking in the pressure cooker and a pudding baking in the oven.
Mrs. Gilder has been in Colorado the past 25 years coming to locate in this community from Missouri. Her husband preceeded her in death in 1935.
In her early life she bacame a minister of the Church of God and continued her ministerial duties as much as her health permitted up until the time of her death.
She leaves a large number of devoted children and other relatives and a host of friends to mourn her passing.
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