Blair County PA Archives Obituaries.....Cree, Elizabeth Jordan March 24, 1915
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The Tyrone Herald 3/25/1915
BEAUTIFUL LIFE ENDED
Mrs. Elizabeth Jordan Cree Passed Away Yesterday Morning.
As mere words, however deftly combined are powerless to express the depth of 
mother-love so language is inadequate to covey the poignancy of bereavement 
when the cold hand of death is laid upon that revered one in whom the interests 
of the home are ever centered, the mother. The good influences that go out from 
the modest, self-effacing life of the devoted christian mother, cannot be 
measured in the concrete, but the community is bettered beyond its knowing in 
the gentle but far-reaching beneficence of that life.
Such a a mother, such a true christian woman of inestimable good influence in 
this community, passed away at 12.40 this morning when Mrs. Elizabeth Jordan 
Cree died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. Wallace Templeton on South 
Lincoln avenue.  For the past two years; Mrs. Cree had been a patient sufferer 
from diseases incident to old age.  She was submissive and patient until she 
peacefully sank into the sleep which knows not awakening in this world.
Mrs. Cree was a daughter of the late Robert and Ann Cree early settlers of 
Huntingdon county.  She was born in the above county, January 12, 1828 and was 
aged 87 years, 2 months and 11 days.  On September 7, 1859, she was united in 
marriage at Orbisenia, to David Cree.  He preceded her to the grave about five 
years ago.  In 1881 she came to Tyrone and resided here ever since.
Mrs. Cree was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Tyrone.  
Consistent membership in the Methodist church marked practically her entire 
life, for from early childhood she was devoted to it.  She lived in the faith 
and passed away in the strength of the christian religion.  To her immediate 
family she represented all that is embraced in the dearest, sweetest, best in 
the spoken thought  “Mother”.  To her friends and acquaintances, her noble self 
sacrificing devotion was an uplifting exemplication of the golden rule.  Always 
cheerful, her happy disposition and keen interest in daily affairs of life kept 
her young despite her years.  To her children her comforting presence was 
life’s greatest joy, and her all-consuming love for her dear ones makes the 
parting sad indeed.  The fondest remembrance to linger with them will be of her 
who they are now called upon to lay at rest.
Surviving to mourn her death are three children as follows: John Cree, of 
Altoona, James C. Cree and Mrs. A. Wallace Templeton.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Templeton home on South Lincoln 
avenue on Friday afternoon at 2.30 o’clock by Rev. W. W. Hartman.  Interment in 
Grand View cemetery.


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