Beckham County, OK - Obits: Louellen Hood, 1909
07 April 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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HOOD, LOUELLEN
(29 Jul 1909, Thursday, Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
Louellen Hood, age 10 years and 8 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O.
Hood, died last Friday at 1:30 o'clock, p.m. of typhoid fever.  She was a
very lovable child, a member of the Christian church and a regular
attendant at Sunday School and church services.  While yet the innocence
and sweetness of childhood's happy hours were hers the Master beckoned her
to the other shore.
Funeral services were conducted at the Christian church Saturday morning
by Elder H. E. Stubbs, assisted by Elder J. J. Lockhart.
The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the bereaved ones in
their hour of sorrow.
(29 Jul 1909, Erick Altruist, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
Last Friday afternoon the death angel spread its wings over Little Luellen
Hood and said God had need of her, and the loved ones stood back and saw
her pass before them and ascend that shining pathway, which now reaches
back to them.  To know her was to love her.  Sweet spirited, gentle,
unselfish, thinking first of all of her parents, then her teacher and her
classmates.  They all loved her because she loved them.  A dutiful child,
an obedient and painstaking pupil, always with well prepared lessons.  She
had a little winning unselfish way of creeping into your heart before you
were aware of it and she was such a comfort you would not have it
otherwise.  A life as pure as hers is always pure, even while it errs,
like "Sunshine broken in a still, though turned away is sunshine still." 
She was my pupil at different times for three years, and I can say she was
a rare flower of sweetest fragrance, and "Like a cloud, a lovely cloud, on
a summer's day floats out of the heat of the land, o'er the sea, so passed
her sweet life away."
Mrs. E. D. Pritchard.

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