Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Windybank, Richard - September 3, 1918
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source: New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.)
1902-1944, September 21, 1918, Image 5


RICHARD WINDYBANK. - Another boy, answering the imperative call of his 
Country to defend her honor and integrity, has gone to rest. This is 
liberty's inexorable price. Those unwilling to face this burden, this 
exacting duty are not freedom's children, freedom's wards. The sacredness 
and the purity of our womanhood rests upon the foundation built by the 
sacrifice of the citizenship battling for the ideals and altruisms involved 
in the present war struggle. Men's hearts are being searched, men's soul 
tried, the fibre of our whole national web and warp of our democratic 
existence and life is being tested. Threatened with extermination by the 
false religion of might and power; avoiding the crushing blow of deceptive 
savagery, of cunning beastliness, we have dedicated all the resources, the 
most precious elements, men, women and children, to the safety and security 
of a world democracy. Tears and sorrows will block the path; suffering, 
misery, woe and despair will be a part of the milestones we have to pass on 
our irresistible march to victory. Richard Windybank of Loreauville returned 
to his native, sacred soil, silent and cold in death, consecrating the cause 
which demanded its victim, is one of those which sacrifice has marked with 
the insignia of American patriotism. Sympathy for the bereaved is a poor 
substitute for life; inadequate are all emotions to stop the tears of the 
grave. But on a horizon, from afar off, arise, from the eternal mist and 
fog, the lustre of the star of hope, to open for the mother's redemption and 
salvation, a resting place of honor and glory, marked by the nation's 
legitimate war prayer. Mr. Windybank enlisted some two months ago and was on 
a transport crossing the Atlantic ocean, when stricken with the fatal 
diseast (sic). Practicing sympathy and humane tenderness and consideration 
for which this Republic is famed and and respected, the body was returned to 
those, who in the future will find it a shrine upon which the flowers of 
memory and hope will forever blossom. To the mother, Mrs. Kate Windybank of 
Loreauville, we tender our most heartfelt and sincere condolences and 
consolations. The funeral will be held on Sunday from the Episcopal church, 
Rev. Dr. Diggs officiating.


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