OBIT: Catherine Stewart MATTHEWS, 1910, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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Miss Catherine Stewart Matthews Dies at Her Home on Twelfth Street

  After suffering since early last May with tuberculosis, Miss 
Catherine Stewart Matthews passed into rest five o'clock Saturday 
morning.  About eight years ago Miss Matthews had tubercular trouble 
and at that time her friends feared that she would be taken from them.  
She rallied and for years seemed cured of the disease, when early last 
spring she became afflicted again and since May, she has been gradually 
growing weaker until she entered into that great peace this morning at 
the above mentioned time.  
  Katie Matthews, as she was known by her intimate friends, was an 
exemplary Christian young lady.  Her life was pure and sweet and was 
lived in such a manner that those coming in touch with the happy young 
woman saw within her the Christ whom she loved to serve and with whom 
she has gone to live through eternal ages.  She had a quiet, loving 
disposition, and to know her was to love her.  No doubt in her short 
life she has been a power for good, for when she was only a girl of ten 
years she united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Birmingham and 
since then, when her health permitted, she has been actively engaged in 
the work of the church.  
  She was born at Birmingham where she lived until about twelve years 
ago when she moved with the family to Tyrone.  She is survived by the
following brothers and sisters: William, of Rockville, Md.; Stewart, of 
the Philippine Islands; Mrs. A. F. Weston and Miss Annie Matthews, of 
Tyrone.  
  The funeral occurred on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The services 
were conducted at the home on West Twelfth Street by Reverend James B. 
Stein D. D., pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Interment 
was made in the family plot at the Methodist cemetery at Birmingham.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., October 6, 1910