Floyd County GaArchives Obituaries.....Reese, Evelyn Elizabeth July 12, 1910 ************************************************ 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: Fran Weatherby flweatherby@bellsouth.net May 2, 2013, 3:13 pm Rome Tribune-Herald July 13,1910 Wednesday July 13, 1910 Bright Young Girl Is Dead Miss Evelyn Reese Dies On East Side; Funeral This Afternoon Evelyn Reese is dead. Such was the startling announcement which fell upon the ears of the citizens of Rome on yesterday. But, alas! it was too true, for the bright-faced, happy hearted Evelyn was dead and while the loving hearts of her once happy family were pierced as by a dagger, the faces of our people were saddened and their hearts touched with sympathy at her untimely end. Evelyn Reese sprang from an ancestry in the social, judicial and legislative spheres of this nation, and yet with all of this high standing of her family, she lived, and was the true type of the noble devoted, loving, pure and truly Christian young woman. Evelyn Elizabeth Reese was born in Madison, Morgan county, Georgia, on April 6, 1890, and at ten minutes before 4 o'clock, on the morning of July 12th, 1910, the soul of this pure, happy and splendid girl, just blooming into womanhood, took to itself, "the wings of morning," and sped away to the God from whence it came. When but an infant, her father, George S. Reese, moved from Madison to the city of Rome, and she has therefore lived all of her life in this city. At about twelve years of age she united with the First Baptist church and at the time of her death was a consistent member as well also a constant and devoted attendant of the Sunday School. In her school days she was punctual and studious, her surroundings were happy and pleasant. Her future looked bright and promising. Her friendship in childhood, maidenhood and young womanhood were strong, true and enduring. But in all the beauty and loveliness of her young life, the true and grandest character of this noble girl, stood forth and hovered over her home and family as a "Holy benediction." She was the pride and joy of the family and was the "Great Peacemaker and Arbiter," in all the little troubles between the children. Her purpose and object in life was to make, not only home and family happy, but to carry and scatter flowers of pleasure and joy in all the pathways of life. Columns and pages could be written on the character of this sweet girl but I have simply wandered into the garden of the past, and from the "Hot House," of memory, plucked this simple immortelle that I might lay it on the new made grave of this dear young woman in memory of her and hers. May the purity, beauty, and loveliness of character of this noble girl be an inspiration to her family and friends and may the memory of her virtues, while living in their midst, hover over this community as a guardian angel, is the wish of a sincere Friend Rome, Georgia, July 13, 1910 Funeral Notice The friend and acquaintances of Mr. George S. Reese and family, are requested to attend the funeral service of his daughter, Evelyn, at their residence, this afternoon, at the hour of 4:30 o'clock. The following gentlemen are requested to act as pall-bearers: Sproull Graves, Henry Hine, Gray Stewart, W.S. Blair, Sam Hardy and Wright King, who will please meet at Harvey&Best undertaking parlors, at 4 o'clock. Thursday, July 14, 1910 Bright Young Girl Is Laid To Rest Funeral of Miss Evelyn Reese is Attended by a Large Number of Sorrowing Friends The funeral of Miss Evelyn Elizabeth Reese, whose spirit winged its way to the Creator on Tuesday morning, causing sorrow to all those who knew and loved her, occurred on yesterday afternoon, at four-thirty o'clock at the residence of her parents in East Rome. No death more untimely has ever touched the hearts of Romans as that of the beloved Evelyn Reese. The life, beautiful and happy, so bright and rosy with views and expectations of the future, has been cut too short, and left a vacancy never to be filled. Her death is particularly heart rending and sad to those who daily came in contact with her loving traits of character, which fell about her, as blossoms scatter in a pathway. All during her illness to the end, when she fell in a calm and reposeful sleep, was she brave and patient, and kind to the loving hands which so carefully administered to her, just as she had come and gone all through life, with a kind word and cheering smile for every one. Besides her hundreds of sorrowing friends, and a large number of relatives, outside of her immediate family, she leaves to mourn her loss, loving and devoted parents, Mr. and Mrs. George S. Reese, one sister, Miss Nona Martin Reese, and three brothers, who are Mr. Leland Reese and Julian and Edwin Reese. Dr. Headden, very touchingly with tender and comforting words, paid the last tribute to her many virtues. The floral offerings, elaborate beyond description, were only a small token of the great love and esteem in which she was held. Miss Gladys McClain, Miss Martha Long, Mr. Charles Warner and Mr. Henry Patton composed the choir which very sweetly and beautifully sang, "Go Bury Thy Sorrow," "Abide In Me," and "The Christian's Good Night." Mrs. McHenry accompanied them on the piano. Her mortal remains were laid to rest on beautiful Myrtle Hill, and her friends who bore the body to its final resting place were Messrs. Henry Hine, Wright King, Sam Hardy, Ray Stewart, Sproull Graves and W.A. Blair. "Her beautiful life was loaned to us, We knew it was not given. Her spirit has flown home to God, And with Him rests in Heaven." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/floyd/obits/r/reese14079ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.0 Kb