Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Blakesley, Marion Gardiner 1919
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Payette Enterprise 6-19-1919
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, June 19, 1919

MARION GARDINER BLAKESLEY

Wife of E. W. Blakesley, died at the home on first Avenue south in the early 
hours of Saturday, June 14th, and was buried Sunday afternoon. It profits 
little to use superlative sentences in an obituary notice. People who have 
known the deceased have no need of them, and those who have not known her will 
pay scant attention to them. And yet there is nothing but words by which to 
express feeling and appreciation. And there is little danger going beyond the 
truth in any thing we may say to the praise of Mrs.. Blakesley. The things 
that are pure, just, kind, lovely and of good report, those things she thot 
upon and sought to put them into deeds. She not only "Hoped that God was love 
indeed and love Creation's final law." She believed it in the same sense that 
a traveler believes in the buoyancy of water to carry the great ship. Her 
interests ranged wide but they looked for no wealth or value except that of 
people being re-made into the likeness of Christ Jesus. This one thing she 
did --sought to make the kingdom of God a reality in this present world. Never 
in her life was she found ranged with the forces of evil, but always with the 
forces of righteousness. It is as true of her as it was of Abraham, "God could 
reveal His utmost purpose to her, seeing she ordered her household aright." 
Her husband and four children who remain among us sorely bereaved are 
sustained by the perfect assurance that whatever there is of future reward for 
the faithful of earth, is already become her possession.

From our mortal point of view there is an extra tinge of sadness that the 
death angel came for her this month instead of next. Twenty-seven days more 
and she with her husband would have reached the fiftieth anniversary of their 
wedding day. But Gods plans are not by our calendars, and she passed on a 
little too early for the celebration that was to have been. Loving memory will 
take the place of personal presence when the day arrives.

The funeral services, at the house were brief and simple as she had requested. 
The roses of Junetime never lent themselves more lavishly to express love than 
when they garlanded her casket and her burial mound. The family was grateful 
indeed, that it was so beautifully done.

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Note:  Burial at Riverside Cemetery. ch

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