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FUNERAL HELD OF MRS LULU R. WELLS
Funeral services for Mrs. LuLu Ribble Wells, wife of Dr. J. Hunter Wells, who died Saturday after a protracted illness, were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Chapel of First Presbyterian Church. Pallbearers were members of the session of the church.
Mrs. Wells was appointed a special missionary of the Presbyterian church in 18?6 and was married to Dr. Wells in Yokahama Japan September 27 18?6.
For over twenty years Mrs. Wells took an increasingly important part of the missionary work in Korea, and was instrumental in forming the Lulu Wells Institute in Korea for the education of young Korean women, a work which had an especially strong appeal to her. Since Dr. and Mrs. Wells left Korea a few years ago, the work of this institute has taken on added importance.
Mrs. Wells was born in Roanoke, Virginia January 26, 18?7, coming from an old Virginia family which was active in revolutionary days in bringing about the independence of the United States, one of her ancestors having been a Colonel in the Virginia troops.
Mrs. Wells leaves her husband and four children. Scott Hunter Wells, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and who is now with the American Steel & Wire Company in New Haven Conn.;Virgin with the American Steel & Wire com- Tennessee; Helen Wells and Milton Wells.

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