Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Laselle, Mahala 1876
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Ionia Standard, page 15, 7 Dec 1876

Obituary.

Removed by death, November 1, 1876, from Ronald Grange, No. 191, Sister Frank
Laselle, L.A.S., a beloved and useful member.

“There is no flock, however watched and tended
But one dead lamb is there;
There is no household, how so e’er defended
But hath a vacant chair.:

For the first time since our organization that “vacant chair” is with us.  We
can scarcely see it through our tears, yet we know it is there, for ever empty,
speaking in its loneliness more eloquent than words of the grace, the activity,
the usefulness of who so lately filled it.  But while we mourn our loss as a
personal one, and grieve together with a common sorrow, we feel acute sympathy
the weight of the blow which has fallen upon our brother, her husband.  He has
lost a loveable, a tender and devoted wife.  Heart has been rudely torn from
heart, and no words or ours can heal the wound.  We can only pray that the
consolations of the Man of Sorrows may be given to him and to his motherless
little ones.  

But, brothers and sisters, let us open our hearts to the lessons of this sad
bereavement.  This has been our first loss, it cannot be our last.  Other
husbands and wives will be separated, other homes left desolate.  Let us as an
order, as families, as individuals, cherish those who are left us with more
extended charity, with tenderer love.  Oh! there is no reproach so kene as that
which comes from the mute lives of those whom we have loved, but there is no
blow so crushing as that delt by the still, folded hands of those whom we should
have cherished but have neglected.  With hearts made tender by this great
sorrow, may we give to those around us the benefit of that charity “that beareth
all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”

Kate E. Fowle,
Louise A. Waldron,
Mary F. Kellogg.


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