Mrs. J.M. Alvarez was taken to the Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville, Wednesday afternoon following severe facial and body burns sustained when she passed along in front of the open fireplace as she was serving supper to her husband and the crepe house-coat which she was wearing caught fire, and had spread all over her body before anyone realized what had happened.
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday February 19, 1943 page 1
Mrs. Lucia Sharpe Alvarez, 67, wife of J.M. Alvarez, veteran Starke merchant, died in the Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville, Friday Feb. 19, as a result of burns sustained Tuesday night Feb. 16, at her home.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in St. Mark's Episcopal Church of which she was a member. The Rev. Fred Yerkes, Rector of the Church officiated. Interment was in Crosby Lake Cemetery with DeWitt C. Jones in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. R.J. Davis sang a special request of the deceased, “In The Time of Roses”, also “Abide With Me.” A quartette, composed of Mrs. Davis, Mrs. E.L. Biggs, L.C. Powell and Rev. A.E. Lightfoot sang another one of her requests, Alfred Tennyson's “Crossing The Bar.” One other request of Mrs. Alvarez was fulfilled – that a blanket of magnolia leaves from her trees at Kingsley Lake be spread over her casket, and although the many beautiful flowers showed the esteem in which she was held, the magnolia leaves formed the only covering for the casket.
Mrs. Alvarez was born in Lafayette, Ala., the daughter of the Rev. John R. Sharpe, a former pastor of the Starke Methodist Church, and Sarah Callahan Sharpe. Her father was pastor at Gainesville when the older part of the Methodist Church there was built, and died in the Yellow Fever epidemic in Jacksonville.
The deceased was married to J.M. Alvarez in 1894 and spent the greater part of her life in Starke. Where she was well-known for her interest in charity and other welfare work. She was a charter member of the W.T. Weeks Chapter, U.D.C. And was at one time the registrar of the Florida Division of this organization.
Always interested in the underprivileged, for several years she did volunteer work in the capacity of health nurse among school children in the County, retiring only when the WPA employed a paid nurse to do the work. She was also vitally interested in the campaign against tuberculosis and took a leading part in the annual sale of Christmas Seals as long as her health permitted.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J.H. Gill, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. D.A. Monteith, Starke; and Mrs. W.P. Randall, Norfolk, Va.; one brother, John Sharpe, New Orleans, La.; seven grandchildren and one great-grandson.
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday February 26, 1943 page 1
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday February 19, 1943 page 1
Mrs. Lucia Sharpe Alvarez, 67, wife of J.M. Alvarez, veteran Starke merchant, died in the Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville, Friday Feb. 19, as a result of burns sustained Tuesday night Feb. 16, at her home.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in St. Mark's Episcopal Church of which she was a member. The Rev. Fred Yerkes, Rector of the Church officiated. Interment was in Crosby Lake Cemetery with DeWitt C. Jones in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. R.J. Davis sang a special request of the deceased, “In The Time of Roses”, also “Abide With Me.” A quartette, composed of Mrs. Davis, Mrs. E.L. Biggs, L.C. Powell and Rev. A.E. Lightfoot sang another one of her requests, Alfred Tennyson's “Crossing The Bar.” One other request of Mrs. Alvarez was fulfilled – that a blanket of magnolia leaves from her trees at Kingsley Lake be spread over her casket, and although the many beautiful flowers showed the esteem in which she was held, the magnolia leaves formed the only covering for the casket.
Mrs. Alvarez was born in Lafayette, Ala., the daughter of the Rev. John R. Sharpe, a former pastor of the Starke Methodist Church, and Sarah Callahan Sharpe. Her father was pastor at Gainesville when the older part of the Methodist Church there was built, and died in the Yellow Fever epidemic in Jacksonville.
The deceased was married to J.M. Alvarez in 1894 and spent the greater part of her life in Starke. Where she was well-known for her interest in charity and other welfare work. She was a charter member of the W.T. Weeks Chapter, U.D.C. And was at one time the registrar of the Florida Division of this organization.
Always interested in the underprivileged, for several years she did volunteer work in the capacity of health nurse among school children in the County, retiring only when the WPA employed a paid nurse to do the work. She was also vitally interested in the campaign against tuberculosis and took a leading part in the annual sale of Christmas Seals as long as her health permitted.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J.H. Gill, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. D.A. Monteith, Starke; and Mrs. W.P. Randall, Norfolk, Va.; one brother, John Sharpe, New Orleans, La.; seven grandchildren and one great-grandson.
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday February 26, 1943 page 1
Mrs. J.M. Alvarez was taken to the Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville, Wednesday afternoon following severe facial and body burns sustained when she passed along in front of the open fireplace as she was serving supper to her husband and the crepe house-coat which she was wearing caught fire, and had spread all over her body before anyone realized what had happened.
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday February 19, 1943 page 1
Mrs. Lucia Sharpe Alvarez, 67, wife of J.M. Alvarez, veteran Starke merchant, died in the Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville, Friday Feb. 19, as a result of burns sustained Tuesday night Feb. 16, at her home.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in St. Mark's Episcopal Church of which she was a member. The Rev. Fred Yerkes, Rector of the Church officiated. Interment was in Crosby Lake Cemetery with DeWitt C. Jones in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. R.J. Davis sang a special request of the deceased, “In The Time of Roses”, also “Abide With Me.” A quartette, composed of Mrs. Davis, Mrs. E.L. Biggs, L.C. Powell and Rev. A.E. Lightfoot sang another one of her requests, Alfred Tennyson's “Crossing The Bar.” One other request of Mrs. Alvarez was fulfilled – that a blanket of magnolia leaves from her trees at Kingsley Lake be spread over her casket, and although the many beautiful flowers showed the esteem in which she was held, the magnolia leaves formed the only covering for the casket.
Mrs. Alvarez was born in Lafayette, Ala., the daughter of the Rev. John R. Sharpe, a former pastor of the Starke Methodist Church, and Sarah Callahan Sharpe. Her father was pastor at Gainesville when the older part of the Methodist Church there was built, and died in the Yellow Fever epidemic in Jacksonville.
The deceased was married to J.M. Alvarez in 1894 and spent the greater part of her life in Starke. Where she was well-known for her interest in charity and other welfare work. She was a charter member of the W.T. Weeks Chapter, U.D.C. And was at one time the registrar of the Florida Division of this organization.
Always interested in the underprivileged, for several years she did volunteer work in the capacity of health nurse among school children in the County, retiring only when the WPA employed a paid nurse to do the work. She was also vitally interested in the campaign against tuberculosis and took a leading part in the annual sale of Christmas Seals as long as her health permitted.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J.H. Gill, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. D.A. Monteith, Starke; and Mrs. W.P. Randall, Norfolk, Va.; one brother, John Sharpe, New Orleans, La.; seven grandchildren and one great-grandson.
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday February 26, 1943 page 1
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday February 19, 1943 page 1
Mrs. Lucia Sharpe Alvarez, 67, wife of J.M. Alvarez, veteran Starke merchant, died in the Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville, Friday Feb. 19, as a result of burns sustained Tuesday night Feb. 16, at her home.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in St. Mark's Episcopal Church of which she was a member. The Rev. Fred Yerkes, Rector of the Church officiated. Interment was in Crosby Lake Cemetery with DeWitt C. Jones in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. R.J. Davis sang a special request of the deceased, “In The Time of Roses”, also “Abide With Me.” A quartette, composed of Mrs. Davis, Mrs. E.L. Biggs, L.C. Powell and Rev. A.E. Lightfoot sang another one of her requests, Alfred Tennyson's “Crossing The Bar.” One other request of Mrs. Alvarez was fulfilled – that a blanket of magnolia leaves from her trees at Kingsley Lake be spread over her casket, and although the many beautiful flowers showed the esteem in which she was held, the magnolia leaves formed the only covering for the casket.
Mrs. Alvarez was born in Lafayette, Ala., the daughter of the Rev. John R. Sharpe, a former pastor of the Starke Methodist Church, and Sarah Callahan Sharpe. Her father was pastor at Gainesville when the older part of the Methodist Church there was built, and died in the Yellow Fever epidemic in Jacksonville.
The deceased was married to J.M. Alvarez in 1894 and spent the greater part of her life in Starke. Where she was well-known for her interest in charity and other welfare work. She was a charter member of the W.T. Weeks Chapter, U.D.C. And was at one time the registrar of the Florida Division of this organization.
Always interested in the underprivileged, for several years she did volunteer work in the capacity of health nurse among school children in the County, retiring only when the WPA employed a paid nurse to do the work. She was also vitally interested in the campaign against tuberculosis and took a leading part in the annual sale of Christmas Seals as long as her health permitted.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J.H. Gill, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. D.A. Monteith, Starke; and Mrs. W.P. Randall, Norfolk, Va.; one brother, John Sharpe, New Orleans, La.; seven grandchildren and one great-grandson.
The Bradford County Telegraph Starke, Florida
Friday February 26, 1943 page 1
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