Mrs. David Meade Matthews (nee Juliette Matthews)

ETERNITY

BECKONS TO

MRS. MASSIE

And She Yields to the Inevitable.

Sudden Death A Shock To All

The hand of death reached out from the unknown, Wednesday evening, and without warning plucked from the living Mrs. Juliette Matthews Massie. Mrs. Massie had suffered from an attack of acute indigestion on Monday, but had seemingly recovered from the attack, save that she was rather exhausted from the ordeal through which she had passed.

About 9 o'clock she retired to her room at her home on West Water street and read for a quarter of an hour, and then retired. Sterterous breathing attracted the attention of Mr. Massie, who was reading in the next room, and going to her bedside he found her unconscious. Quickly summoning Drs. Harry P. Brown and O. P. Tatman, they responded and found her in a very critical condition, suffering from acute dilation of the heart. Although powerful heart stimulants were administered, she never rallied and death came in half an hour.

The suddenness of the attack was a stunning shock to her husband, Mr. Massie, who himself is just recovering from rather a trying ordeal at the hands of the surgeon, and to her friends, who felt that she was to be spared to them for many years yet to come, a shock from which none have as yet recovered.

Juliette Matthews Massie was the daughter of Thomas A. Matthews and Llewellyn Stockton Pearce, his wife. She was born near Maysville, Ky., October 14, 1860. Her marriage to David Meade Massie was solemnized November 6th, 1883. She is survived by her husband, a sister, Miss Lyda Matthews, of Covington, Ky., a brother, Mr. Lewis P. Matthews, of Springfield, Ohio, and two nieces, Miss Llewellyn Matthews Hemingray, of Covington, Ky., and Mrs. Philip W. MacAbee, of Muncie, Ind.

The funeral will be held from the residence on West Water street at half past two Friday afternoon. Interment plans, not yet perfected, will await the convenience of the family.

Mrs. Massie was a most cultured and charming woman, one whose graciousness of manner impressed those with whom she came in contact as innate. Her associations in her youth and in her married life were such as to bring her into intimate contact with men and women of the political world, which gave her a thorough tough with affairs political, and in all she moved with a rare tact and a diplomatic smoothness such as characterized her every day contact with those both high and low, both cultured and uncultured, a real graciousness which was a real part of her and could not be shaken off. It was this very naturalness which endeared her to all who knew her and it is the sense of loss, of something well worth while that is gone, that leaves these friends and intimates with a void that time alone will fill. To her husband, however, comes the most severe shock, for to him, she was his all, his mainstay, and the dearest tie that holds one to life. That time can assuage his grief or lighten his sorrow is a hope that sustains his friends and calls from them a plea unto Him who tempers to all, the suffering that burdens poor humanity.