Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/126 Surname: Ivy, Walker ------------------------- I have no connection to this family. Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield Texas Friday, October 30, 1925 IN MEMORY OF MRS. JOHN IVY Mrs. Mindai IVY was born in the town of Fairfield, Freestone County, Texas, July 29, 1872. She departed this life Oct. 16, 1925. For two years she had suffered with cancer of the stomach. At the time of her death she was in the Baptist sanatorium, Houston, Texas where her husband had brought her for an operation. For a week Physicians in charge used all skill at their command to build up her physical strength to where an operation could be attempted, but without success. The writer, who for four years was Mrs. IVY’s pastor, was often in her home. In her the pastor found a true friend and loyal supporter. She loved her home and was devoted to her husband and children. Her life answered well to Solamon’s description of a virtues world. Her price’s abouve rubies, the heart of her husband, doth safely trust in her. She stretcheth out her hands to the needy, she looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and praiseth her, her husband also and he praiseth her. Proverbs: 31 She was a christian from early childhood and ws brought up in the Methodist faith in which commune she died. Surviving her are her husband, two children, father and mother, four brothers and four sisters. The husband, John IVY, and Polk, the son, live near Kingsville Texas, the daughter, Birdie, now Mrs. Leonard WALKER, lives in Goliad Texas where her husband is a rising young business man. Maore than once during her last illness, Mrs. IVY expressed herself as being ready to go. Olive, the oldest daughter, had preceeded her to the better land ten years before. The mother had lived to see Polk and Birdie develope into useful christians. The husband, John IVY, is a conscrated christian lay man. Her work on earth was finished therefore it seemed proper that her release should come. On Thursday, just after the clock had struck the hour of low 12:00, her gentle spirit took it’s flight. She was carried to Fairfield, the old home town, and laid to rest. As such the poet has said: The dead are like the stars of day Withdrawn from mortal eye But not extinct they hold their way In glory through the sky H. B. WATTS Houston, Texas