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I«r •kmtm. at North Sfcora station. I TSUNDAY. Jan* *7 dor• ;S0 a.m., Sunday acbool. I tunMrs. Clara Stevens, 'JWeil Known Artist, Rlt;Dies After Illness OiMrs. Clara Hatch Stevens, artist I 1 and art instructor, passed away I ga$ Thursday evening at the home of her I Mi daughter, Mrs. Percy Prior (Irene | en* LStevens), 1026 Wade street. Funeral I Chservices were held Monday at the 27. Kelley Funeral home with Rev. Christ- jactioph Keller of Trinity Episcopal thechurch officiating. atMrs. Stevens, 80, who has been ex- ®oceptionally active ail her life, fell and *dislocated her shoulder May 22 at her mohome in Lake Bluff. She was twibrought to the home of her da ugh- Bater. Complications *due to influenza ofand a failing heart contributed to her tio passing. I JetShe was born April 22, 1863, in Har- lyrodsburg, Ky., a daughter of Dr. th«Johnson Hatch and Clarissa Rous- 'seau Baker Hatch. Her formal edu- Mication was received in the grade theschools in Keokuk, la., and in Jack* atsonvitle, 111. t where she graduated sesfrom the Woman's college, now inknown as MacMurray college. She coistudied art and music in Chicago and inNew York and did copying of mast- placrs in London, Paris, Vienna and ke;Dresden. # eifTau*ht Art thlt;She taught arj in Jacksonville, '111., gai high school. Eureka cotlege, Lexington, Ky., School for Girls, and Port-land, Ore., schools.At the request of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Stevens was one ofseveral women „ selected to paint a 0 frieze at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. For the Centuryof Progress m 1933-34, Ihe painted the hoIndian mother scene at the Woman’s da;Medical Center building. ShMrs. Stevens did both landscaping Ocand portraiture and exceptionally joutstanding were her many pastorals an of birch trees. Her granddaughter, paJean Prior, has inherited her talent *nand is an art student in Chicago at *npresent T.OwmmI Horn* I QfFor the past fifty years she has f*twned a home in Lake Bluff, one of a.the original Hobbs* houses, where cf|, she spent her summers, spending thewinters in Chicago and for the last p fifteen years, with her daughter ts a|jHighland Park. Her husband, Charles waL. Stevens, passed away many years yyago. She was a charter member of | 1 the Lake Bluff Woman's club.Mrs. Stevens is survived by herdaughter, Mrs. Prior, and two grand- 2* children, Jean, and Aviation CadetPercy Jr, of College Station, Texas. 3In-
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Highland Park Press
Highland Park, Illinois, US
Thu, Jun 24, 1943
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