Obituary for Mae McWha, Vermontville, Eaton County, Michigan

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Newspaper source unknown, Scrapbook 1928-1932, Vermontville Library,
Vermontville Michigan
MAE MC WHA
In noting the passing of Mae McWha, the human mind is unequal to the task
of describing the virtues, kindness and charity of the departed. It is
seldom that a town of our size has an angel of this character in its midst.
        There have been hundreds and hundreds of times when the poor, the
unfortunate and the needy have been ministered unto in their time of want
and sorrow and have been helped both spiritually and materially by Mrs McWha.
        At Christmas time, during the cold of winter, at Thanksgiving and at such
other times as necessity has required she had gone out of her way causing
herself untold labor to provide clothes, food and shelter for the
unfortunate. This has been not just of late years, but has extended over a
period of many years. The writer can vouch for around sixteen. Prior to
that we believe that the same conditions obtained.
        This is a long stretch of time to be laboring for the benefit of
unfortunate. This is a long time to be denying yourself the pleasures of
rest and utilizing that time for the charitable benefit of others.
        Too much cannot be said in praise of this fine spirit and kindness, and
when the rigors of winter again appear and the cold winds again blow and
little children and their elders are without the supporting things of life,
then, and fully then, will the loss of Mae McWha be realized. 
        We are writing this at this time, because all these things have been done
in such a manner that nobody apparently seems to know about it. In other
words, it has been charity in the extreme, without any apparent fuss of
feathers. It fulfills the description of charity.
        Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth
not itself, is not puffed up.
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own; is not easily
provoked, thinketh no evil;
        Rejoiceth not in inequity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
        Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things. I Cor., X, 4-7.
        And the King shall answer and say unto them. Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me. Matt., XXV 40.


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