The LaCygne Weekly Journal Linn County Friday February 24, 1899 Mrs. Mary Anne DeForest. After eight long weeks of intense suffering Mrs. DeFOREST passed quietly and peacefully away at 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jay CORBY. It was a sad and peculiar case. She took sick two days before the wedding of her daughter Minne and was unable to attend the ceremonies. She has never been up since and gradually grew weaker to the last. Durning her sickness she often told her daughter, Mrs. Clarence PORTER, how anxious she was to get well and visit them in their home. She endured her suffering like a soldier and died bravely and with an abiding faith in her Christian hope of a better and happier life beyond. She was a member o fthe Christian church and an earnest and faithful worker. She was also an active worker in the Ladies' Aid society. She was a member of the Rebecca lodge in this city and also of the Royal Neighbors in which she carried $1000 of life insurance. In all these societies she was an honored member and respected and loved for her generous, sympathethic and unselfish disposition and kindly treatment of all whom she met. For many years she kept hotel and and in her business as well as social life she was the same good natured, kind hearted woman. She worked hard to provide for herself and family and had laid up a little store and having sold the hotel business she was planning to take life a little more easy just as she was stricken down with the fatal sickness. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Jay CORBY and Mrs. Clarence PORTER and one son, John. Also three brothers and three sisters who live in Miami county. The bereaved family and relatives have the sympathy of the entire community in their sad hour of affliction. The funeral was held at the Christian church at 2:30 p.m. Friday. --Observer.