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CHAPTER VII

MEMORIAL SERVICE AND TRIBUTES

At a meeting of the Federal Suffrage Association of the United States, held October 2nd at the residence of Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, to arrange for a memorial meeting for the late corresponding secretary of the Association, Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, who died September 7, 1916, at Palo Alto, California, the following resolutions were adopted:

Whereas, our corresponding secretary, Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, has departed this life for a field of higher service,

Resolved, that in her death the Federal Suffrage Association of the United States has lost a faithful and enterprising officer; the woman's suffrage cause a self-sacrificing, versatile, and brilliant advocate; and humanity a strong and noble soul, with face turned ever to the light, and with voice and pen devoted to the higher thought and broadening vision of the race.

Resolved, that this association will do all in its power to carry on the work for which it was organized, and which Mrs. Colby so ably led;