Kern County Obituaries

Mrs. J. E. Harkins (Alice Belle)

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Mojave Desert News; 19 May 1949

Mrs. J. E. Harkins Passes Away in Los Angeles After a Short Illness
After impressive funeral rites held last Saturday afternoon in Forest Lawn at Glendale, 
the remains of Mrs. J. E. Harkins, beloved wife of Jim Harkins, popular Southern 
Pacific engineer of Mojave was laid to rest in the Mausoleum there. Mrs. Harkins, 
formerly in motion pictures in the silent days, was a very gracious lady and, had 
endeared herself to her many Mojave acquaintances during her eight years residence 
here, and many will miss her smiling face which used to greet them each morning at 
the post office. 
She was married to J. E. for 25 years of happily wedded bliss, whom she met at her 
home in the South where they were married, from where they took up residence in San 
Francisco later coming to reside in Bakersfield and finally coming to Mojave to live 
where they have resided ever since at the property on the corner of Inyo and N streets. 
Ever of a smiling disposition she successfully hid illness until it became necessary for 
her to go to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Spears of Hollywood and was in the 
hospital there for but one week when she passed on.	
She is survived by, her husband, her daughter, and two brothers who reside in Los 
Angeles. Two poems written by Edgar Guest, aptly describing this lovely woman were 
read at the funeral ceremony, which were attended by her family.	
It will be hard for her husband to carry on alone and our sympathy goes to him but he 
can rest assured that she has gone to a better place where God will give him strength to 
carry on.

NOTE:
CADI
Alice Belle Harkins
b. 25 Mar 1880, CA
d. 11 May 1949, Los Angeles County CA