A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Texas > Henderson http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2413 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=38427 Submitted by: Fourls1223 Article Title: Athens Weekly Review Article Date: May 22 1924 Article Description: Obituary of Mrs. Ed Larkin Article Text: Athens Weekly Review Thursday, May 22, 1924 Mrs. Ed Larkin Dead Chandler, Texas, May 15, 1924. Mrs. W. E. Larkin, wife of Ed Larkin, who has resided in the Soldier Springs community for more than a score of years was plucked by the stings of death and relieved of her earthly and physical suffering by responding and submitting herself to the Just and Almighty One who is able to weigh her life as she has lived. During her suffering and illness she would look up to her friends and relatives with a smile and say, “I want for nothing.” She faced death as being a great and accomplished good thing where the soul is beginning to live a real life free from sickness, sorrow and death. Falling leaves are natures sermons. So tenderly we lay the mortal frame away, and robe it with the garments which love dictates and cover it with our sight. Never again after the beautiful band has been broken will there be anything so sweet as the little circle of mother, father and children who are cherished, protected, praised and kept from harm. And it is a singular fact that when we reach middle life and look back it is not the beautiful, nor the brilliant, more the famous people whom we have known that we remember with the keenest regret, but some simple sincere, pleasant soul whom we treated as an everyday matter while she was with us. The pleasant women is the attraction that everywhere is the attraction that everywhere hold society and homes together. The good mother joined the Concord Baptist church in her infancy and has been a faithful member attending services in her declining health. She taught her children to be men and women and to set before the world her example that her teachings would not be in vain. Greater love hat no mother than this that she was willing to lay down her life’s work for others to follow her example. Her home was always open to the rich, poor, stranger and known as being a place of free hospitality and where hundreds of people have visited. Among those who survive her are: W. E. Larkin, Fina, Glen, Mrs. E. F. Gimble, Mrs. Lelia Beall, Mrs. Gladys Green, Mrs. Ruby Donaghey and Treasure. She was 65 years old and was united by the holy hands of marriage to W. E. Larking of Union Parish, La, in 1881 by Rev. J. P. Bedell. She was laid to rest in the Concord Cemetery Friday, May 16, among the largest concourse of friends and relatives that ever witnessed such a solemn affair, house overflowing. Dr. Moon of Chandler conducted the funeral ceremony. Our deepest sympathy goes out to the bereaved ones. A FRIEND. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ TX-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com