Mrs. Henry H. Dakin Passes Away at Her Santa Cruz Home

(likely from the Woodland newspaper)

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Mrs. Ruth Chamberlain Dakin passed away at her home in Santa Cruz May 3. She is survived by the widower, H.H. Dakin, and two children, aged 4 and 8 years.

Mrs. Dakin, nee Ruth Chamberlain, worker in the Woodland post office for some time under Postmaster E.I Leake. she was residing at the time with her parents near the old Farrish home. Her father passed away in Woodland in 1919. Her brother, C. Drummond Chamberlain, conducted a bicycle
shop at 414 Main Street, Woodland. Another brother, Thurston Royal, was killed in France in the world war.

The mother, Mrs. Edna Chamberlain, has been residing in Sunol, Alameda County, for the past five years, caring for her own mother, who has been bed-fast and entirely helpless for more than three years of that time. Mrs. Chamberlain's youngest daughter, Beth, lives with her and attends the Pleasanton High school. Another sister to the deceased, Mrs. John Trimingham, also lives in Sunol. All of the brothers and sisters were present for the funeral. Those not already mentioned are, Edith M. Chamberlain, Alameda; Mrs. A.B. Scott, McKittrick; Mrs. M.W. Sharp, Watsonville; C. Drummond Chamberlain, Orland.

The saddest part is the bereaved home of Mrs. Dakin. Mr. Dakin is of a very old pioneer family. Their home is situated in one of the most picturesque and impressive spots in the Santa Cruz mountains. 'Tis desolate now for the guiding star has gone out. The after faces with broken heart the task of rearing his two girls, four and eight years of age.

One of the most touching tributes was the floral piece made by Mr. Dakin himself, to be placed at the head of the grave. The offering was in the shape of a heart, with a solid white background, in the center of which reposed two scarlet rosebuds in all the magnificence of their young beauty, symbolizing the two children. This simple card attached indicated the bonds of affection which bound father and mother:

From the garden, tended by Ruth and
Henry

In which also bloomed love and accord

The following tribute was taken from the Santa Cruz Sentinel of May 6:

Mrs. Henry Dakin, who has passed away, was one of the finest and most valuable women in the county. Her loss is not only a great one to her family and the Mountain farm center, but to the county as a whole. Mrs. Dakin was an unusually intelligent mother. Although her own health had always been poor, she gave such thought and care to her two children that they rank among the best specimens of childhood in the county. Mrs. Dakin was a tireless worker in her community. The school children will miss her, as she had charged of the music in the school and was loved by every one of the boys and girls. As a member of the home department of the farm center, the county Farm Bureau must share her loss with the Mountain Farm Center. As a project leader in nutrition and as a mother, Mrs. Dakin was a help and an inspiration to all the
women who knew her. She was a woman greatly beloved and her passing is a keen sorrow in many hearts.

Anne M'Cormick,

Home Demonstration Agent