SCHLEY COUNTY, GA - OBITS Verdie Lightner

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Schley County News  August 19, 1921
 
VERDIE LIGHTNER
 
On last Friday afternoon at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
W.D. Sears, the funeral of little Verdie Lightner,
daughter of Mrs. J.S. Lightner, was held and was
attended by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and
relatives.  Rev. L.B. Johnson, of Plains, conducted the
services assisted by Rev. B.L. Jordan, pastor of the
Methodist church here.

A quartette composed of four of Veride's little
friends, Frances Arrington, Lillian Rainey, Emma Gene
Battle, and Ruth McNeal, sang her favorite song, "I'll
Be a Sunbeam for Jesus," and the little girl's Sunday
School class with a few other little friends acted as
honorary pall bearers.  Many beautiful flowers spoke
silently of the great love for this little girl who so
early in life has joined the choir invisible and is now
singing with the angels.

Her remains were laid to rest in the cemetery here
beside those of her father, the lamented Dr. J(oel)
S(tephen) Lightner, who died but fourteen months ago.

May the good Lord who doeth all things well comfort
those so sorely bereaved.  They have the sympathy of
the entire town and country in their sorrow.