Beckham County, OK - Obits: Edith Brewer, 1916
28 Sep 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BREWER, EDITH
(18 May 1916, Thursday, Elk City Leader, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Infant of Mr. and Mrs. Brewer Died Wednesday.
The infant of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brewer died at the home here Wednesday
night.  Funeral services will be held tomorrow (Friday) and interment will
be made in the local cemetery.  Mr. and Mrs. Brewer have the sympathy of
many friends.
(20 May 1916, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Edith Brewer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brewer, died Wednesday night
of pneumonia, aged one year and four months.  After funeral services held
this afternoon, the little form was laid to rest in the Fairlawn Cemetery.
(1 Jun 1916, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
IN MEMORY.
Little Edith Brewer has gone to rest.  She died May 17th, 1916, aged
sixteen months.  Her smiles are missed; her little hands will never be
seen again reaching for papa when he comes from town.  She was a happy
spirit, and the joy and light of the home.  But it is just such spirits
that God wants in heaven.
We have a little boy, that sleeps beneath the shady oaks of Texas.  Our
little girl rests in Elk City cemetery, but both are happy now in glory.
I am glad for the hope of reaching infinite fields, that stretch through
all eternity, whose inhabitants can laugh at muttering thunder and
growling earthquakes, where sickness is a stranger and death is unknown. 
Our babe is gone but she lives in our minds.  As pure white lillies
decorated her brow, so her innocent smiles decorate our hopes in this
world and will be woven in garlands that the suns of time will not fade.
At a glance death appears so grim, the ice form, the marble brow, the
crape on the door, the procession to the grave, but through faith we
penetrate the cloud of death and see a star of hope that will shine
forever.