After many weary months of intense suffering patiently borne, Lucretia S., wife of John O. Bussard passed away Wednesday morning. Lucretia S. Boyd was born near Lyme, N. H., Aug. 17, 1851, thus being at the time of her death 67 years, 1 month and 1 day old. Her girlhood was spent in New Hampshire and Vermont where she commenced teaching at the age of eighteen. In 1871 she went to Iowa, passing through Chicago while the city was wrapped in the flames of the "Great Chicago Fire." After teaching in Iowa four years, she returned to Vermont and taught one year. The year 1877 found her teaching in Nebraska where she met Mr. Bussard who engaged her first as a teacher and then as a life companion. They were married March 20, 1879. To this union were born six children, three sons and three daughters, one son, Leroy, dying in infancy.
Together they came to the Pacific Coast, locating near Lynden in April, 1884. The following winter, she taught school in the log schoolhouse which until burned a few years ago, was an old landmark. Coming as she did in those early days, she had all the experience of pioneer life, fleeing before the forest fires carrying her baby in arms, and leading her children. She ever had an interest in all work of reform. She was secretary of the first W. C. T. U. of Lynden, of which organization she was always a member. She was a member of the S. D. A. church, and as long as health permitted, was a devoted and faithful worker. During her long and painful illness, she surprised her many friends with her brave endurance, ever having a pleasant greeting for her friends. Besides her husband, she leaves to mourn her loss two sons and three daughters, and nineteen grandchildren. The children are Mrs. Mae A. Beach of Oakland, Cal., Charles O. Bussard, Mrs. Birdie Day, Victor Bussard, of Lynden, and Mrs. Ethel Sackett of Tillamook, Ore. She also leaves four sisters, Mrs. Julia Chaplin of Newport, Vt., Mrs. Annie E. Cudney, Mrs. Carrie R. Moon of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Emma Snow of Warburton, Australia.
