Mrs. Robert Stoddart. 78, a well-known Fairfield resident, died at her home at 401 East Washington Street about noon Tuesday from cancer.

Mrs. Stoddart had been hospitalized for two weeks with pneumonia and returned to her home only Friday.

Funeral services were held from the Cumberland  Presbyterian church Thursday afternoon (today), with Rev. J. G. Whiteside officiating, assisted by Rev. J. L. Mitchell.  Burial  was in Maple Hill Cemetery.  Dixon & Crippin Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Mrs.  Stoddart was a former school teacher and taught first grade here for fifteen years. She had a record of twenty-five years of teaching with only one day of school missed.

She was active in the Bible Study Club here and held her membership in the Fairfield C. P. church, after first uniting with the Thomas Prairie C. P. church early in life.

Cora, daughter of Curtis and Salina Borah McLin, was born in Massilon Township northeast from Fairfield, March 30th, 1879.  She grew to womanhood in the vicinity of her birth.

On December 25th, 1922, she was married to Robert Stoddart, with no children being born to this union.

Surviving are her husband: three brothers, Larkin McLin, of Harrisburg, Ark.; Dr. Thomas G. McLin, of Huntington, W. Va.; and John McLin, of Jacksonville; and, three  sisters, Mrs. Mary Haefele, of Memphis, Tenn.; Mrs. Ruth Mollring, of Folsom, Calif.; and, Leona McLin, of Isabella, Puerto Rico.