Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

IN MEMORIUM

Mary Frances Haden, second daughter of James and Sarah Haden, was born August 1, 1881, died Nov. 16, 1899. The past six years have been spent in Blackwell where she was the light of the home of her aunt, Mrs. Miller. Here under the watchful care of loving hearts, her eager mind received its training, having graduated from the Eight grade and taken one year in the high school; here she grew from the laughing, bright-eyed girl into lovely and accomplished womanhood, and here, because of her many ministries of love for all about her, she formed the sweet friendships and closer loves that make life so worth living. It was here she gave her young life into the care of “Him who is able to keep and present faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.”
Having been thus closely identified with us during the formative period of her life, the whole community is grief stricken at our loss for she seemed indeed to belong to us all. Her life seemed so full of happiness and bright promise, it would be impossible to reconcile our hearts to our loss, but for the comforting thought that she was a Christian, and for such, “There is no death; what seems so is transition.” Her young life went out in the early morning and at noon the beautiful white casket was tenderly borne in the hands of bearers, who had been her school mates, and placed in front of a bank of flowers in the Christian church, of which she was a faithful member. The pastor preached a very impressive sermon from Heb. 12, 22 as a text and was ably assisted by the ministers of the other churches. The choir, composed mostly of the teachers and high school, sang “Only remembered by what we have done,” and “The broken circle.” A large concourse of sympathetic friends viewed for the last time the lovely face so peacefully resting amid the flowers while the comforting hymn, “We’ll never say goodbye” was being sung. The remains were then borne to the depot for the last home going to Columbia, Mo., for interment. We bid the bereaved ones take comfort in the thought:
That her mission was complete,
Although so brief her life’s career;
Our lives made purer by the dear
And tender ties of love so sweet.
CELESTE MAY

LETTER OF CONDOLENCE

Resolved. That the members of the Kay County Teacher’s Association, body assembled, do extend our heartfelt sympathy to our sister teacher, Mrs. France Miller, in the recent loss, by death, of her niece, Miss Francis Haden.
Committee { R. M. Burch, H. W. Frazier, Mrs. C. O.
Garlinghouse, W. A. Delzell
Braman, Oklahoma, Nov. 18, 1899