Elna Olive Stillman died December 27, 1916, having passed her eighty-third birthday on October 5.
She was the oldest of three daughters born to Richard and Leivona Coon Stillman. In early life she became a member of the Brookfield Seventh Day Baptist Church and as long as health permitted, was a constant attendant at the morning service of that church, the Sabbath school, and the Friday night prayer meeting, and also a loyal member of the Women's Missionary Society. For a time she lived alone with her mother, and ministered to her in her last days. After the death of her mother Mr. Southworth's family came to live in the home and cared for her in her feebleness. About twenty years ago she fell, breaking her hip, and for some time was not able to walk to church, though her heart was loyal; for she took delight in reading the Recorder, and recently said, "I miss going to church the most of anything." It was not strange that, being the last of her family, and most of her old friends having gone, she should desire to depart to be with her kindred.
Her funeral was from the church she loved, and in the absence of a pastor, services were conducted by Rev. F. H. Lewis, of the Methodist church, and she was laid to rest with those she loved in the Brookfield Rural Cemetery.
E. L. R.
