Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . home, July 2. 1909. The body was borneto the Kern residence in Mattoon. and on Tuesday morning, July 6th, atthe Methodist Episcopal Church, while she lay in the church parlor on hersnowy couch, in robes of white, in a crescent of flowers, and guarded overby the pall bearers. Rev. Mr. Ewert, pastor of the local church, assisted byRev. D. W. English of Kansas, 111., a former pastor and district superin-tendent, Parker Shields of Charleston, conducted the service, which wasappropriate and beautiful and largely attende
Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . home, July 2. 1909. The body was borneto the Kern residence in Mattoon. and on Tuesday morning, July 6th, atthe Methodist Episcopal Church, while she lay in the church parlor on hersnowy couch, in robes of white, in a crescent of flowers, and guarded overby the pall bearers. Rev. Mr. Ewert, pastor of the local church, assisted byRev. D. W. English of Kansas, 111., a former pastor and district superin-tendent, Parker Shields of Charleston, conducted the service, which wasappropriate and beautiful and largely attended, ^fter which all that was mor-tal of Hooper was borne to Dodge Grove cemetery and placed in thereceiving vault to await the completion of the vault which was being built bythe side of that in which her husband now rests. She is survived by one daughter. Mrs. Mabel Hooper Kern, with whomshe made her home, and grandson, Armstrong Kern, one son. Cyrus Lau-ron Hooper of Chicago, and two brothers. Walter Robertson of Blooming-ton. and James Robertson of Ellettsville. 140 ILLINOIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1909 MRS. ELSIE LOWE TV/TRS. ELSIE LOWE was born at Trafalger, Can-^^^ ada West, in 1815. Her father was one of the first white children born in that country. Mrs. Lowewas one of eleven children, and at the time of herdeath was the last survivor of the family. In 1841she was married to Rev. W. F. Lowe, who at the timeof his death was a member of the Illinois Confer-ence. Soon after the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Lowethe husband was converted and united with the Meth-odist Church of Canada. With his conversion camethe call to the ministry and he became a member ofthe Conference of the Methodist Church in Canada, where they labored for twenty years, doing pioneer work. In 1860 they left Canada and moved to Wis-consin for the benefit of Mrs. Lowes health, but herhealth not improving, they removed to Illinois where Brother Lowe be-came a member of the Central Illinois Conference. I
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