Berta Capitola Sylvester Richards, born April 25, 1870, at New Buda, Iowa, died June 15, 1966, at Newbury Park, Calif. In 1893 she married Elder H. M. J. Richards, and they engaged in evangelism in the Iowa Conference. In 1899 they went to Colorado to labor. In 1912 she became secretary of the Sabbath school and education departments of the East Pennsylvania Conference, whet her husband was president. They held similar positions in the Ontario Conference, in Canada, and also in the Texico and Arkansas conferences. They moved to the Pacific Coast and labored, first at the St. Helena Sanitarium and Hospital, and then in the Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital, and still later in Mountain View and Long Beach. Survivors are her two sons, Elder H. M. S. Richards, speaker and director of the Voice of Prophecy, and Kenneth D. N. Richards, of Silver Spring, Md.; seven grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Berta Capitola Sylvester Richards, born April 25, 1870, at New Buda, Iowa, died June 15, 1966, at Newbury Park, Calif. In 1893 she married Elder H. M. J. Richards, and they engaged in evangelism in the Iowa Conference. In 1899 they went to Colorado to labor. In 1912 she became secretary of the Sabbath school and education departments of the East Pennsylvania Conference, whet her husband was president. They held similar positions in the Ontario Conference, in Canada, and also in the Texico and Arkansas conferences. They moved to the Pacific Coast and labored, first at the St. Helena Sanitarium and Hospital, and then in the Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital, and still later in Mountain View and Long Beach. Survivors are her two sons, Elder H. M. S. Richards, speaker and director of the Voice of Prophecy, and Kenneth D. N. Richards, of Silver Spring, Md.; seven grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
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