Norwich, April 9.-Miss Lillian Belle Sage, who died at her home here on Sunday, practically sacrificed her life to the cause of education. Miss Sage came home just before the last holiday season worn out and ill from overwork. Her illness soon assumed a phase that gave her family and friends the deepest anxiety and there was a little change in her condition other than a gradual decline until the end on Easter day. Miss Sage was born in Willett, Cortland county, about 45 years ago and came to Norwich at a very early age. She was a graduate of the Norwich High School and of Cornell University and 13 years ago became an instructor in New York city. When illness came upon her she was the head of the biological department of the Washington Irving High School, the largest High School in the world, and one of the leading and most aggressive members of the faculty. She was especially active in securing the new building and a new school organ. She was especially active in securing the new building and a new school organ. She drew the plans and the specification for the school biological laboratory, which has since been frequently copied as it model. Miss Sage was a member of the Bronx Zoological Society and was instrumental in organizing the animal house at the Irving High School, the first time living collection, the first time living collections were used in the nature study in the school. She was chairman of the Committee that arranged for the use of plant and animal houses in the schools below fifty-ninth street and gave illustrated lectures to over 12,000 children a month. She was president of the P.F. McGowan Memorial Association, which put the memorial chimes in the organ. She wrote and staged a good many of the school pageants. Funeral services were held from her home on South Broad street Wednesday afternoon. In her honor the flag at the Washington High school was at half mast the first three days of the week and the flags on all the school buildings in New York city were at half mast the day of the burial services, which were conducted by Rev. H.W. Foreman, rector of Emmanuel Church, at 2 o'clock. The floral pieces were elaborate and beautiful and the whole community has been saddened by the circumstances of her death. Her father, William A. Sage survives. {Utica Saturday Globe, April 1915]