d/o William Thomas Seon and Annie Elizabeth Seathen; w/o Chesterfield Hilton Greene
Undertaker Greene's Wife Passes
Last Tuesday at 1 p.m., St. Cyprian Episcopal Church on Tremont St., was thronged with sorrowing friends who came to pay tribute at services for Mrs. Margaret Seon Greene, wife of Undertaker C. Hilton Greene, whose untimely and unexpected death occurred Saturday, June 15 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, after an operation.
Rev. Leroy Ferguson, rector, conducted the services, assisted by Rev. S. L. Laviscount, pastor of St. Mark Congregational Church. A profusion of floral tributes surrounded the casket wherein reposed the lifelike remains of the deceased. Undertaker E. L. Morrison was in charge, all the other undertakers lending their assistance.
Interment was at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Obituary
Margaret Rosalie Seon Greene, was born in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, on December 23, 1903. The youngest of three children born to William Thomas Seon and Annie Elizabeth Seathen.
When but a young child, she took readily to reading good literature and at the age of sixteen she graduated from high school with "First Class Honors" and received a "purse" as a gift, from the Governor of the Island.
Then she went to Canada where she attended the Normal Training School for Teachers in Hamilton, Ontario. On graduating from Normal Training School, she applied for and got the assignment to teach in a village five hundred miles to the North located in the Great North Woods country of Canada.
There she taught in a wooden hut for more than two years, with the temperature at sub-zero ofttimes during the Winter Season.
Later, she returned to Bermuda, her island home, and helped George DeCosta to reorganize the Berkeley Institute--the only high school of its kind for colored people and Indians on the island. While doing that, she worked for and won her A.B. degree from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, receiving there from "Honours" in French and English.
On July 25th, 1938, at St. John's Anglican Church, Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, Miss Seon married Mr. C. Hilton Greene of Boston, Mass., who had spent some of his boyhood days near Miss Seon's home at Devonshire North, Bermuda.
The happy couple came to Boston to make their home. Here Mrs. Greene served, and prepared herself for still greater service by attending the Boston Clerical School and had planned to attend the Harvard Summer School Session, this Summer.
On June 14th, she went to the Peter Bent Brigham hospital for an examination and what the doctor, Stanley O. Hoerr M.D. said he expected would be a minor operation. She was operated on the following day, Saturday: and died while under the influence of ether.
She leaves to mourn their great loss, a loving and devoted husband, her mother, two sisters, three aunts, one uncle, many cousins and a host of friends.
Source:
The guardian, June 22, 1940, Page 1
Undertaker Greene's Wife Passes
Last Tuesday at 1 p.m., St. Cyprian Episcopal Church on Tremont St., was thronged with sorrowing friends who came to pay tribute at services for Mrs. Margaret Seon Greene, wife of Undertaker C. Hilton Greene, whose untimely and unexpected death occurred Saturday, June 15 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, after an operation.
Rev. Leroy Ferguson, rector, conducted the services, assisted by Rev. S. L. Laviscount, pastor of St. Mark Congregational Church. A profusion of floral tributes surrounded the casket wherein reposed the lifelike remains of the deceased. Undertaker E. L. Morrison was in charge, all the other undertakers lending their assistance.
Interment was at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Obituary
Margaret Rosalie Seon Greene, was born in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, on December 23, 1903. The youngest of three children born to William Thomas Seon and Annie Elizabeth Seathen.
When but a young child, she took readily to reading good literature and at the age of sixteen she graduated from high school with "First Class Honors" and received a "purse" as a gift, from the Governor of the Island.
Then she went to Canada where she attended the Normal Training School for Teachers in Hamilton, Ontario. On graduating from Normal Training School, she applied for and got the assignment to teach in a village five hundred miles to the North located in the Great North Woods country of Canada.
There she taught in a wooden hut for more than two years, with the temperature at sub-zero ofttimes during the Winter Season.
Later, she returned to Bermuda, her island home, and helped George DeCosta to reorganize the Berkeley Institute--the only high school of its kind for colored people and Indians on the island. While doing that, she worked for and won her A.B. degree from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, receiving there from "Honours" in French and English.
On July 25th, 1938, at St. John's Anglican Church, Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, Miss Seon married Mr. C. Hilton Greene of Boston, Mass., who had spent some of his boyhood days near Miss Seon's home at Devonshire North, Bermuda.
The happy couple came to Boston to make their home. Here Mrs. Greene served, and prepared herself for still greater service by attending the Boston Clerical School and had planned to attend the Harvard Summer School Session, this Summer.
On June 14th, she went to the Peter Bent Brigham hospital for an examination and what the doctor, Stanley O. Hoerr M.D. said he expected would be a minor operation. She was operated on the following day, Saturday: and died while under the influence of ether.
She leaves to mourn their great loss, a loving and devoted husband, her mother, two sisters, three aunts, one uncle, many cousins and a host of friends.
Source:
The guardian, June 22, 1940, Page 1
d/o William Thomas Seon and Annie Elizabeth Seathen; w/o Chesterfield Hilton Greene
Undertaker Greene's Wife Passes
Last Tuesday at 1 p.m., St. Cyprian Episcopal Church on Tremont St., was thronged with sorrowing friends who came to pay tribute at services for Mrs. Margaret Seon Greene, wife of Undertaker C. Hilton Greene, whose untimely and unexpected death occurred Saturday, June 15 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, after an operation.
Rev. Leroy Ferguson, rector, conducted the services, assisted by Rev. S. L. Laviscount, pastor of St. Mark Congregational Church. A profusion of floral tributes surrounded the casket wherein reposed the lifelike remains of the deceased. Undertaker E. L. Morrison was in charge, all the other undertakers lending their assistance.
Interment was at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Obituary
Margaret Rosalie Seon Greene, was born in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, on December 23, 1903. The youngest of three children born to William Thomas Seon and Annie Elizabeth Seathen.
When but a young child, she took readily to reading good literature and at the age of sixteen she graduated from high school with "First Class Honors" and received a "purse" as a gift, from the Governor of the Island.
Then she went to Canada where she attended the Normal Training School for Teachers in Hamilton, Ontario. On graduating from Normal Training School, she applied for and got the assignment to teach in a village five hundred miles to the North located in the Great North Woods country of Canada.
There she taught in a wooden hut for more than two years, with the temperature at sub-zero ofttimes during the Winter Season.
Later, she returned to Bermuda, her island home, and helped George DeCosta to reorganize the Berkeley Institute--the only high school of its kind for colored people and Indians on the island. While doing that, she worked for and won her A.B. degree from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, receiving there from "Honours" in French and English.
On July 25th, 1938, at St. John's Anglican Church, Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, Miss Seon married Mr. C. Hilton Greene of Boston, Mass., who had spent some of his boyhood days near Miss Seon's home at Devonshire North, Bermuda.
The happy couple came to Boston to make their home. Here Mrs. Greene served, and prepared herself for still greater service by attending the Boston Clerical School and had planned to attend the Harvard Summer School Session, this Summer.
On June 14th, she went to the Peter Bent Brigham hospital for an examination and what the doctor, Stanley O. Hoerr M.D. said he expected would be a minor operation. She was operated on the following day, Saturday: and died while under the influence of ether.
She leaves to mourn their great loss, a loving and devoted husband, her mother, two sisters, three aunts, one uncle, many cousins and a host of friends.
Source:
The guardian, June 22, 1940, Page 1
Undertaker Greene's Wife Passes
Last Tuesday at 1 p.m., St. Cyprian Episcopal Church on Tremont St., was thronged with sorrowing friends who came to pay tribute at services for Mrs. Margaret Seon Greene, wife of Undertaker C. Hilton Greene, whose untimely and unexpected death occurred Saturday, June 15 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, after an operation.
Rev. Leroy Ferguson, rector, conducted the services, assisted by Rev. S. L. Laviscount, pastor of St. Mark Congregational Church. A profusion of floral tributes surrounded the casket wherein reposed the lifelike remains of the deceased. Undertaker E. L. Morrison was in charge, all the other undertakers lending their assistance.
Interment was at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Obituary
Margaret Rosalie Seon Greene, was born in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, on December 23, 1903. The youngest of three children born to William Thomas Seon and Annie Elizabeth Seathen.
When but a young child, she took readily to reading good literature and at the age of sixteen she graduated from high school with "First Class Honors" and received a "purse" as a gift, from the Governor of the Island.
Then she went to Canada where she attended the Normal Training School for Teachers in Hamilton, Ontario. On graduating from Normal Training School, she applied for and got the assignment to teach in a village five hundred miles to the North located in the Great North Woods country of Canada.
There she taught in a wooden hut for more than two years, with the temperature at sub-zero ofttimes during the Winter Season.
Later, she returned to Bermuda, her island home, and helped George DeCosta to reorganize the Berkeley Institute--the only high school of its kind for colored people and Indians on the island. While doing that, she worked for and won her A.B. degree from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, receiving there from "Honours" in French and English.
On July 25th, 1938, at St. John's Anglican Church, Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, Miss Seon married Mr. C. Hilton Greene of Boston, Mass., who had spent some of his boyhood days near Miss Seon's home at Devonshire North, Bermuda.
The happy couple came to Boston to make their home. Here Mrs. Greene served, and prepared herself for still greater service by attending the Boston Clerical School and had planned to attend the Harvard Summer School Session, this Summer.
On June 14th, she went to the Peter Bent Brigham hospital for an examination and what the doctor, Stanley O. Hoerr M.D. said he expected would be a minor operation. She was operated on the following day, Saturday: and died while under the influence of ether.
She leaves to mourn their great loss, a loving and devoted husband, her mother, two sisters, three aunts, one uncle, many cousins and a host of friends.
Source:
The guardian, June 22, 1940, Page 1
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