Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Golden, Ann Jenette (Hill) December 26, 1895
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Pioneer Notebook, Greenville Library, Page 29
GONE TO HER REWARD
The Mortal Remains of Mrs. Golden Laid To Rest – Memoral Services Held in All 
the Churches
“So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall 
have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is 
written:  Death is swallowed up in victory.  O Death, where is thy sting? O 
Grave, where is thy victory.”
The remains of Mrs. O.  J. Golden, whose death was noted last week, was 
tenderly laid to rest with impressive services, in River Ridge cemetery, last 
Sunday.  The funeral service was held in the Methodist church at 10:30 o’clock 
a.m. at the same time memorial services were also held in the Baptist and 
Congregational churches which were filled to more than their seating capacity.
Her death seemed not only to be keenly felt by the members of the societies to 
which she belonged, but the sympathy and tokens of respect manifested showed 
the high esteem in which she was held and that all felt her loss deeply.
The beautiful casket which encased her form resting at the altar was covered 
with flowers and over the altar there draped a floral piece bearing the 
inscription, W. C. T. U.   A number of palms were also arranged near the 
casket which, with the floral offering from the D. of R., Epworth League and 
Woman’s Club, emblems of purity and loveliness, made a silver lining to the 
cloud of sorrow.  Her Sunday school class of boys were present and occupied 
seats in a body, each wearing a branch of evergreen.
Rev. J. I. Buell of Ionia, presiding elder of this district, conducted the 
service, first reading the ninetieth Psalm, and after sweetly solemn music 
sung by the M. E. choir and a solo by Mrs. Gardner, he preached an excellent 
sermon from First Cor. 13:12 “For now we see through a glass darkly, but then 
face to face.  Now we know in part, but then shall I know even as I am 
known.”  He closed by reading the following, commenting and commending very 
highly the life and character of the deceased:  Ann Janette Golden, wife of 
Rev. O J. Golden, died at their home at 5 o’clock, Thursday morning, December 
26, 1895.  She was the only surviving daughter of her widowed mother, Mrs. 
Hill.  She was born in Naples, Ontario Co., N. Y., December 1, 1850, being 
forty-five years and twenty-five days old at the time of her death.  She was 
married in Avoca, N. Y., June 28, 1868.
In 1872 they came to Michigan and in 1875 Mr. Golden entered the ministry as 
an itinerant preacher of the Methodist church.  Since the beginning of this 
work, Mrs. Golden shared in an unusual manner the toils and experiences of the 
ministry.  She was the mother of three children, Gerty, wife of Mr. Dwight 
Morehead, Harry, who died when four years of age at Alden, Mich., the place of 
the father’s first pastoral charge, and Clarence, now at home.
Her last sickness was of great severity, hope and fear alternating on the part 
of her friends for her recovery.  For ten days she was unconscious, holding no 
intelligent conversation with any one.  What her last words were no one knew, 
but her husband said, “There was no need of any last words, her whole life was 
a continual testimony as to the power of Christ in the heart.”  She has now 
living a brother and two step-sisters.
A mother has gone, family ties are broken, a faithful minister has lost a 
loyal helpmate, a daughter and son have met a loss irreparable.  A friend says 
there was a most tender relation between mother and son.  The church has lost 
a great support, and the community at large a person who was always eager for 
its best interests.
She had been told, “You are doing too much.”  She replied, “I had rather wear 
out than rust out.”  She was at home in all departments of church work, in the 
choir, Sunday school, young people’s society, and missionary labors.  In 
district work she had for a number of years taken as active part, was well 
known and highly respected by all of her co-laborers.  At the last meeting of 
the society she was appointed district corresponding secretary of the Woman’s 
Foreign Missionary Society.”
Mrs. Golden was a member of the Daughters of Rebekah and that order, also the 
Oddfellows to the number of nearly one hundred, followed the remains to their 
last resting place, where brief services were held.


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