Death of a Virtuous Lady

News from Tripoli tells that the valiant lady Karima Fares has met her Lord's face at seventy-eight years of age, years spent in works of piety and charity.

The departed was the founder of the "Relief of the Destitute" Association and its president since 1924. It is worth mentioning that this association gathers a choice élite of the ladies of the Fayha, and works in silence and vigor to relieve the needy and the destitute. It is distinguished by its non-sectarian character, embracing members from the various communities, and its aid is likewise distributed without sectarian distinction. The members of the association work with the utmost zeal, drawing their guiding spirit from their president, the departed Mrs. Karima Fares, who spared no effort, throughout her tenure of the presidency, in extending a beneficent hand and lightening the pains of the sick and the hard-pressed; and in this she fulfilled her mission in the fullest measure.

The magazine The Woman's Voice, which sees in the departed's passing a great loss to the homeland, offers its warmest condolences to the honorable Fares family, hoping that from among them a successor will arise to complete the great humane mission.