Astoria relatives and friends were deeply pained Saturday forenoon to learn of the death of Mrs. Pearl Moul, who passed away Saturday morning, about three o’clock at Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Her death came as a great surprise to her many friends here as her condition had recently been reported favorable. Her death was directly due to chronic asthma from which she had been a sufferer for a number of years. December 16, 1919, in company with her husband and parents, and on the advice of her physician, Mrs. Moul went to New Mexico in the belief that the change of climate would be a benefit to her health. During the winter she had influenza. This was followed by pneumonia, but she withstood the strain of the disease remarkably well and appeared to improve slowly until a week ago, when taken with a sudden relapse which caused her death.
Deceased was the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abra’m Horton and was born at their farm home in Woodland township, July 15, 1889, being aged thirty years, eight months and twenty-five days at the time of her death. When but a young girl she came with her parents to Astoria and all of her life has been spent in and near this city. She attended the public schools here and May 15, 1913, she was united in marriage to J. A. Moul of this city. Besides her husband and parents, she is survived by two brothers, L. N. Horton, of Long Beach, Calif., and Daniel, of Radium, Minn.
Mrs. Moul was possessed of a sunny disposition and those who have known her intimately are mourning the loss of a near and dear friend that seemed to be taken ere her years of activity and usefulness had been lived. Her untimely passing has cast a shadow that extends far beyond the family circle and the sorrow of the bereft husband, parents and brothers is shared by the entire community.
The body, accompanied by Mr. Moul and Mr. and Mrs. Horton arrived here on the noon train Tuesday. Funeral services were held at the M. E. church this Wednesday afternoon at half past two o’clock, the Rev. L. A. Crown pastor of the Christian church officiating. The Pythian Sisters organization, with which Mrs. Moul was affiliated, attended in a body. Interment was in the Astoria cemetery.