Obit of Sampson, Lillian Irene - Stephens County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Maggie Wettengel 30 Oct 2005 Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DZB.2ACE/1115.1.1.1 From the Duncan Banner, Duncan, Stephens county, Oklahoma, Friday, April 24, 1908, page 3. A Good Woman Dead. The announcement Sunday morning of the death of Mrs. Lillian Irene Sampson, beloved wife of Oran O. Sampson, came as a shock to the many friends who were not prepared for the sad news. The sympathy of all goes out to the husband in this his saddest hour of grief and sorrow. For many long weeks a devoted husband has sat at the bedside praying and specuiating with the fates that have hovered so closely between convalescence and dissolution, but at last the thread of life snapped and a good woman went to rest; for 'death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.' Death is a harvester that goes into the field with his cycle to gather in his tillage. Some are gathered in at maturity, but, alas, and too often, many are taken before fruitition. Such devotion, such duty of a husband to a wife, affords a brief but enduring sermon to others. It brings out the real character of life, and while a young husband mourns today the loss of his bride of only a few short years, there are many who mingle their tears with him upon the clods which are to rest upon her bosom in the silent chambers of the grave. The deceased died on Easter morning just as the King of Light was shedding his rays o'er budding trees and blossomin flowers. She was 29 years of. Besides a husband and three children, who are left to mourn her death, she is survived by parents; brothers and sisers of Burkburnett, Texas. Funeral services were held at the home Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and interment was at Duncan Cemetery, where the last sad rites were said and where all humanity sooner or later must appear and surrender to the inevitable." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm