Historic Preservation Society of Santa Clara

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Mrs. Julia Lass

Obituary for Mrs. Julia Lass, wife of Captain Christian Lass transcribed from the Santa Clara News, Tuesday, April 19, 1910, pg. 1

 

DEATH COMES TO PIONEER WOMAN

   The funeral of Mrs. Julia Lass, beloved wife of Captain C. Lass, was held from the Lass family residence, 1889 Market Street, at 2 o’clock this afternoon.  Impressive funeral services were conducted and interment held at the Santa Clara Cemetery.

   Mrs. Lass was a native of Germany and was in her 60^th year.  She resided in Santa Clara for many years and her kindly disposition and gentle qualities won for her a host of warm friends.

   None ever entered her home without a warm welcome nor left without feeling the warmth of a genuine hospitality, so characteristic of the people of her ancestry.  Illness did not destroy the charm of a kind indulgent disposition, nor age diminish her unselfish solicitude for her friends and loved ones.

   Her sweet face made sunshine in a shady place.  If strangers felt the charm of her rare courtesy and joyous, sunny temperament, how much more so the members of her own household upon whom she lavished all the sweet earnestness and careful culture of her mind and nature.  Strong and potent was the influence of this loving heart which gave of its gifts so generously.  The spirit of her love was not weakness but strength.  Gently, almost unconsciously, it coerced those coming in contact with it, to strive for if not to attain the realization of her high ideal.