Music: Choir

At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a choir of twelve women sang Nearer, My God, to Thee at an honorary memorial service for Fanny Crosby, hymn writer. The youngest of these women was Mrs. Emma Ankeny, 74; the oldest Mrs. Mary Burke, 92; average age of the twelve was 82.

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