Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Whidden, Vivian nee Lear - November 22, 1910
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
November 26, 1910, page 5


Death of Mrs. Alfred G. Whidden. - In the fullness of a lovely young womanhood, 
surrounded by the adoring affection of a devoted husband and a lovely little 
daughter, in an environment of home life that was ideal because she made it so, 
Vivian Lear, wife of Alfred G. Widden (sic), passed into the Great Unknown at 
3:20 o'clock Tuesday morning, her young life being offered as a mother's supreme 
sacrifice upon the altar of maternity. The sad event transpired at Texarkana, 
Ark., where Mr. Whidden is employed in a reportorial capacity on the Texarkana 
Daily Herald. All that was mortal of the brave young wife and mother was brought 
to this city on the 5:59 T. and P. train Wednesday morning and conveyed to the 
residence of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Duke, and at 10 o'clock the same forenoon the 
inanimate remains were tenderly laid to rest among the trees and flowers of the 
beautiful Episcopal cemetery, following services at the Church of the Ascension, 
Rev. Quincy Ewing of Napoleonville officiating. Many beautiful floral offerings 
testified to the general love and esteem in which the deceased was held, and the 
sorrow which shadows the hearts of those who knew her is the unconscious tribute 
of respect which the living are paying to the memory of one so worthy of 
remembrance and regard.

Mrs. Whidden was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Lear, former residents of 
this city, but who for the past few years have made their home at Scranton, 
Miss. She was twenty-six years of age, and was married to Alfred Whidden in New 
Orleans in March, 1905, Mr. Whidden at that time being connected with this paper 
in the capacity of publisher and foreman. Besides her heart-broken husband and 
little daughter, Evelyn Elizabeth, who is left to face the problem of life 
without the guiding spirit of the holiest love on earth, Mrs. Whidden leaves her 
parents, three sisters, Mrs. D.C. Cary of New Orleans, Mrs. Thos. Krebs of 
Texarkana, and Miss Maud Lear, and two brothers, Duke and Cecil Lear.

The Chief tenders its deepest and truest sympathy to these bereaved ones, who 
must learn to bravely face life in its new meaning, remembering that "The path 
of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow in unknown."



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