“Mrs. Roxie Provost, 35, died yesterday morning at the County Tuberculosis Hospital at Taughannock Falls. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the home of her mother, Mrs. E. H. Carter of 221 S Plain street. Rev. H. L. Johnson will officiate. Interment will be made in the Lake View Cemetery. She leaves her mother, Mrs. E. H. Carter; three sisters—Mrs. E. C. Reesby, Miss Beatrice Carter and Mrs. Carrie Lee of this city, and two brothers—Howard Carter of Boston and Robert Carter of this city.”

“Death and Funerals, Mrs. Roxie Provost,” Ithaca Journal-News, August 13, 1925, 5.