Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Marion West 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 Bond http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003902 November 17, 2003, 12:14 pm Banner, Athens, Georgia May 26, 1916 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 the 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, though 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 services. 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 pall-bearers were members of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity - of which her sons were members - Messrs. Robert Sealy, R. Y. Brinson, John Cummings, T. I. Miller, H. B. Harmon, K. B. Zahner, and John R. Powell. The flowers which covered the casket, filled the chaple 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 quartet composed of Messrs. T. S. Mell, J. D. Mell, A. D. Stynochcomb, 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 inf.... fulness, 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 literly gave her life to her loved ones - to husband and children and little grandchildren. Other relatives felt her loving ministrations 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 lavinshness 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 sons 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, counsellor, companion, and lover. Beyond her home circle she 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 needed 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 she loved for so long, the flower-laden casket was borne to Oconee cemetery and laid to rest. Additional Comments: NOTE: Date shown is the date obit was in paper. NOTE: This was transcribed from microfish in the Heritage Room, Athens Regional Library, Athens, GA. NOTE: This has nothing to do with this obit, except to mention that there were BOTH a family last name of Lampkin and Lumpkin in Athens, GA. This causes some confusion in transcribing documents. 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