STEWART - FLORA 'CLINKARD' - Bar Harbor, 1929

FLORA  STEWART

Bar Harbor Times
April 10, 1929

Mrs. Flora Clinkard Stewart, widow of Lorenzo Stewart, who died in Bar Harbor nine years ago, died at the home of her cousin, Mrs. Ralph Howland in  Medford Hillside, Mass., last Friday, after a brief illness with pneumonia.  Had she kived until May 10, Mrs. Stewart would of been 62 years old.  She was a native of Tremont, the daughter of the late William and Joanna Harper Clinkard.  Mrs. Stewart was spending the Winter in Boston, planning on returning home in the early spring when taken suddenly ill with pleuro pneumonia.  Her death brought deep grief to her many friends for she was  a woman of kindly personality, liked by all who knew her.  Mrs. Stewards only near relative is a brother, Alfred Clinkard of Bar Harbor to whom the sympathy of a large circle of friends is extended.
Funeral services were held from the Congregational Church on Sunday afternoon at 2;30 o'clock, the body having been brought here Saturday evening, accompanied by relatives from Medford Hillside.  Rev. J. Homer Nelson officiated.  There was a large attendance and many flowers.  The bearers were Edwin Stewart, Curtis Stewart, Lawrence Harper, Eugene Harper, Louis Kelly and Lionel Stewart.  The remains were placed in the tomb there to await burial at the family lot in Center.