Mrs. Charles Combs died Saturday afternoon at 3:55, following an illness of a long duration of tuberculosis, aged 71 years, 10 months and 3 days.
Mary L. Markley Combs was born in Kerton township, Fulton county, Illinois, September 9th, 1858, being the daughter of Adam and Mary Welker Markley.
She leaves to mourn her departure her husband, Charles M. Combs, two children, Sidney and Mabel Combs, three grandchildren, Verle, Willis and Ralph Sherman Combs, three half-sisters, Mrs. Margaret Cooper, Astoria, Mrs. Ettie Prichard, Princeton and Mrs. Helena Black, Los Angeles, Calif., two half-brothers, Jas. Stephens, Astoria and Joseph Stephens, Peoria, Ill.
When a young girl she moved with her family to a home south of Bushnell, Illinois, where she grew to womanhood, met and married Mr. Charles Combs. Immediately after the marriage she moved witih her husband to southeastern Kansas, near Grenola, where they resided for fifteen years, when they returned to Illinois, living in and near Astoria.
Mrs. Combs was a devoted wife, loving mother and loyal friend. She had high standards of morality and honest principles of life, which she daily expressed by example and precept. She was industrious and energetic and performed the daily tasks of life, finding happiness in their well doing.
She was a great admirer of nature and all beautiful things. To her, these were a religion. Spiritual by nature, she showed her willingness to become one of God’s children by uniting with the Baptist Church of Vermont in May of 1929. The Bible was her faithful friend during her last illness and she found comfort and consolation in its sacred pages.
She has left to her memory, the generous contribution of a fine and noble character, that uncomplainingly did the duties to which God assigned her and willingly went to her final rest when He called.
Funeral services were held at the M. E. church Monday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock, conducted by Rev. W. H. Day, assisted by Rev. W. R. Seitzinger. Interment was made in the Astoria Memorial Mausoleum.
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