Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Keeler, Mabel H. 1921
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Payette Enterprise 3-3-1921
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, March 3, 1921
 
MABEL KEELER
 
MISS MABLE, DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. J. E. KEELER DIES
 
In the passing away of Mabel Keeler there has gone from among us one of God's 
own children, for surely she was led by his Spirit.  There are many who, will 
miss her keenly for she had many friends.  Her life was spent in the 
occupation of making friends and keeping them.
 
She was a graduate of Payette High School and after spending some time in 
Lewiston Normal, came back to Payette to teach her first school, being the 
only Payette girl to enjoy that honor.  She taught several years here and led 
a very useful life.
 
Or the last few years she has been unable to teach on account of tubercular 
trouble from which she died Wednesday morning, February 23.
 
The funeral was held in the Christian Church of which she was a faithful 
member since eleven years of age.  The service was a beautiful one, much of 
which she had planned herself, designating boys of her classes as pall bearers 
and her near neighbors, the Parson's family, to sing.  The casket was followed 
to the front of the church by the boys in uniform, then came twelve girls in 
white each placing a beautiful flower upon the casket, then their filed in the 
members of the order of the Eastern Star, almost filling the center section of 
seats.
 
Miss Parsons sang most effectively "One sweetly Solemn Thought".  The minister 
H. E. Mowe, preached a short sermon from the text: "She hath Wraught a Good 
Work.  She Hath Done What She Could."  These words were wonderfully fitting to 
her life.  She had devoted herself to the ideal of following Christ and being 
useful in the world.  In this she was always consistent, even through her long 
illness where she was compelled to stay in bed for over two years.  She never 
forgot her Lord, nor her friends, and at the last she asked that some of her 
flowers be carried to the sick, and accordingly from the bountiful floral 
offerings twelve sick people received bouquets distributed by members of the 
Eastern Star of which she was a member,  The ritual of the order was said at 
the grave, where many had gathered even before the casket arrived.

Additional Comments:
Note:  According to the Idaho Death Index Mabel H. Keeler was born 6-14-1892 
and died 2-23-1921. Burial at Riverside Cemetery. ch

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