Obit of Etha Worley - Grady County, Oklahoma

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::Verden Cemetery--Verden OK

The Verden News
June 25, 1908

IN MEMORIAM

Died, at her home, Mrs. Etha Worley, aged Twenty-four years, after an 
illness of two weeks with typhoid fever, on Sunday morning at four 
o'clock.

Seldom has it been our duty to record so unexpected a death.  A dark 
gloom spread over the whole community when it was whispered from one to 
another Sabbath morning that "Etha was gone!"

She was of an affectionate disposition, bright and winning in her way; 
so that friendship's circle was to her a large one.  Indeed, it may be 
said of her that "none knew her but to love her."

Only a year ago last October she was married to J. B. Worley of this
place; who she leaves to mourn her departure.  Here she grew into 
beautiful womanhood; here she married and helped to establish a home of 
her own; here her busy Christian life was spent, her battles fought, 
her faithful service rendered to her God and the world.  In this 
dearest of all places to her, she lies down at length to sleep and 
rest.  Beautifully appropriate such a resting place, where a large 
number of her dearest friends remain to gather about the dear form with 
honest tears of bereavement, to lay her away tenderly in the narrow 
house with its curtains of fadeless green.

To her the struggle and burden bearing of earth are ended, and we 
confidently trust that like one who awakes from a trouble[d] dream she 
has awakened to see life's endless morning break and knows herself at 
home with all the vast throng of righteous ones, missed from earth, 
safe about her.  She was a member of the M. E. church and was a valued 
leader in the church circle.  Her affection for kindred and friends was 
ever tender and abiding.  Among us all she ranked always as a woman of 
culture, refinement and sympathy, a devoted wife, a loving daughter, a 
true friend, and with all a woman of heroic mould in bravely meeting 
the stern requirements and often the disappointments of life.  She is 
gone from our sight; but because life and love are stronger than death, 
she is still ours.  She is still the daughter of her sorrowing 
parents, upon whom she doted with such clinging fondness, and still the 
companion of him who mourn's earth's greatest loss, and may she not by 
this very transition wield over them a stronger force for goodness and 
truth than before.

Funeral services were conducted on Monday at two o'clock at the church 
by Rev. Snodgrass, after which a large concourse of sorrowing friends 
followed the remains to our Silent City on the hill. 

Submitted by Sandi Carter
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