Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lampkin, Marion Mrs May 26, 1916 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Epps-Bond http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003902 January 16, 2008, 10:20 pm Banner, Athens, Georgia, May 26, 1916 OBITUARY MRS. MARION LAMPKIN WEST Banner, Athens, Georgia, May 26, 1916 Transcribed by Connie Epps Bond. Mrs. Marion Lampkin West Wife of Judge West, is dead (From Tuesday’s Banner) Mrs. Marion Lampkin West, the wife of Judge Henry S. West, judge of this city court of this city, died Sunday afternoon about 1:30 o’clock at her home on Milledge avenue – after an illness of several weeks, through her fatal illness had been of only a few days duration. Her death was rather unexpected to her hundreds of friends here and over the state, and the announcement Sunday afternoon came as a shock in its sense of sudden bereavement to many who knew and loved her. Mrs. West was born September 29, 1862. She was a daughter of the late Lewis J and Lucy P Lampkin and she spent her entire life in this city. She is survived by her husband, and by four children – (Mrs. Lucy Leah Mathis, Mr. Andrew West, Mr. Henry H. West, and Miss Frances West; two grandchildren, Little Marion and Henry Mathis; one brother, Mr. Cobb Lampkin of this city; and several nephews and nieces, Misses Carrie Marion , Lucy, and Lois Lampkin, Mr. Eustace Lampkin, all of this city, Mr. Frank Lampkin of New Orleans, Mr. Clifton Lampkin of Louisville, Mrs. K. E. Edwards of Atlanta, and Mrs. E. F. Porter. Three of her children will be graduated from college in the next few weeks, and it had been the wish of the mother to witness the graduation: Mr. Andrew West from Vanderbilt Medical School, Mr. Henry West from the University of Georgia law school and Miss Frances West from Lucy Cobb Institute. The funeral was conducted yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock from the First Methodist church of which she had been a devoted, consistent, active member for forty years – since early girlhood – the pastor, Rev. Dr. J. C. Morris leading the sermon. The entire bar association of the city formed the honorary pall-bearers and the court house officials attended in a body, the court house closing during the hour of the funeral as a mark of respect to the wife of the judge of the city court. The law class at the University also attended in a body and the faculty and many other students were present. A large audience of neighbors and friends paid their tribute to her life by their presence and the church was filled with those who sorrowed because of her going away. The active pallbearers were members of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity – of which her sons were members – Messrs. Robert Sealy, R. Y. Brinson, John Cumings, T. I. Miller, H. B. Harmon, K. B. Zahner, and John R. Powell. The flowers which covered the casket, filled the chapel and were lavished everywhere over the pulpit and about the bier attested the love in which she was held. The music was sweet and appropriate – Dr. Campbell presiding at the organ and the quartert composed of mesrs. T. S. Mell, J. D. Mell, A. D. Stynohbomb, and E. B. Mell, singing “Some Day We’ll Understand” and other impressive selections. Dr. Morris spoke beautifully of “Mother, Home, and Love,” words which, the dictionaries fail to define in their infinite fullness, richness and sweetness – but words which were associated with the unselfish life of the wife and mother to whom tribute was paid. He said that the measure of the larger life is unselfishness – and that in the life of Mrs. West that larger life of loving unselfishness had bloomed and fruited to bless her family, her neighbors, her church, her city, and the world. If ever the life of unselfishness was exemplified in any community Mrs. West’s was a type of that sort of splendid consecration. She literally gave her life to her loved ones – to husband and children and little grandchildren. Other relatives felt her loving ministerations always. And many besides, especially the young people, the girl friends of her daughters, the young men in school here – for the times without mother, and home, they knew her and loved her and appreciated the lavishness of the love and attention she was glad to bestow upon them. A touching tribute was the fact that the members of the fraternity to which her son belongs and which had often enjoyed the hospitality of her happy home asked to be allowed to bring a pin of the fraternity and bury it with their gentle, loving, motherly friend. In her home she was the ideal mother and wife and queen – her husband relying upon her for the sympathy and devotion he was sure to receive; her daughters confiding in her and loving her; her sons proud of her and finding in her a guide, counselor companion, and lover. Beyond her home circle he found time to be of service – giving cheer to the discouraged, sympathy to the distressed, advice to the troubled, and a hospitable home and a genial heart to those who heeded the touch of just those “heavenly things” on earth”. In home, in society, in church, in the community she was all a good woman can be – and there are hundreds of hearts bowed down with the immediate family in the sense of a personal, deep sorrow at her death. After the funeral services late yesterday afternoon in the church the loved for so long, the flower laden casket was born to Oconee cemetery and laid to rest. Additional Comments: Note from Connie: Marriage: Lampkin, Marion L to West, Henry S. 30 Nov 1887 DOd: used date of obit File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/clarke/obits/l/lampkin11582ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.0 Kb