Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1913 — Undeserved Praise. [ARTICLE]

Undeserved Praise.

“Our dear, departed sister,” said the preacher after the last of the mourners had been seated in the front pew, “was a woman of rare courage, of a loving nature and of noble Impulses. We knew her but to love her. She "was a faithful wife, a kind mother and a true friend. The community has In her death suffered an irreparable loss. I know that you, my hearers, will all agree with me when I say that there was no purer-minded woman than she in all the land. She was the soul of honor; she abhorred gossip, and she did much for charity. It is customary tor us to speak well of the dead, but I am sure that we could not speak otherwise of her, even if It were the custom to speak only the truth of those who have departed. If I were asked to name a single fault that she possessed I could not think of one.” "Hm," said Mrs. Miggleson to the woman who sat beside her, “she always trimmed her own hats!”