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DAVIES.-May 4,19A2, in her home on Reed St., Pittsburg[h], Pa., Mrs. Catherine Davies, wife of the well-known musician and conductor, Prof. D. J. Davies. She was taken ill las Tuesday with pnewnonia and her pain was heavy until she was released by death. She was buried the following Tuesday with services in Fifth Ave. Congregational Church by the Rev. Gwernydd Newton. There was a large congregation present and it was easy to read in the faces of the listeners that the one they loved so much had passed on. The coffrn was covered with flowery tributes. The coffrn bearers were James Harris, William Rees, John Jones, D. J. Evans, Edward Davies and Joseph Davies. Eight days after she was taken ill, she was laid to rest quietly in the family plot in Homewood Cemetery. Besides her husband, she leaves her three daughters and two sons-May, Esther Beatrice, Bronwen Gertrude, David, John and Trevor.
The departed was born in YR Hafod, near Abertawe/Swansea. Her parents were Thomas and Esther Harris. While fairly young she joined the Silvan Congregation Chapel, Pentre Estyll, under the jisistry of the late esteemed Rev. W. Jenkins. In 1883 she followed her parents to this count5r, and Pittsburg[h] has been the family home since then. She was a faithful member of Fifth Ave. Church where she had a good word for everyone. In the family she was a wife and a mother in the best sense of the wod gentle, caring and especially thriffy. As a neighbor she was kind, ready [to help] and full of sympathy. As a member of society she was a gentlewoman, easily led and she took pleasure in peacefulness and affection. It was very striking that Mr. Newton said that she had gone on before; . . . [a paragraph of religious talk]
-Gomerian.

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