Surry-Charles City County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gill, Myrtle, 1929 

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MYRTLE GILL 

GONE AT TWENTY 

  Myrtle was the pride of her home, lovely, cultured and brilliant, and in the 
bloom of her young womanhood.  When the sudden and seemingly untimely end came 
she was in Buxton Hospital in Newport News in training to become a nurse, so 
that she might minister to the sick and suffering.  An aunt who loved her 
much, and with whom she spent several months during her High School days said 
of her: "She was happy when doing for others."  It was this spirit, no doubt, 
that led her into the splendid calling for which she was training when the 
Master, the Great Physician, called her home.

  When I arrived at the home of sorrow, her mother with tears in her eyes, but 
with a faith and assurance that looked beyond time to eternity began telling 
me about it all.  Oh! how they loved her!  Her devoted mother said, "I shall 
miss her most when the time comes for her to come home."  Fond parents and 
friends who will miss her occasional visits to her old home in Claremont, she 
has gone to her new home.  "In My Father's house are many mansions ..."  She 
came not home to you, but you can go home to her.

  Myrtle was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Gill of Claremont, Va. 
She was born in 1909 and died March 12, 1929, after a brief illness of only 
one week.  She died of pneumonia.  She was a member of Bacon's Castle Baptist 
Church.  Besides her parents she leaves one sister, Mamie, four brothers and 
a host of relatives and friends.

  The writer, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Newton, conducted the funeral service 
in Claremont Church of which her parents are members.  The choir sang, "Abide 
With Me" and "Guide Me, Oh Thou Great Jehovah."  Mr. Newton sang a beautiful 
solo, "The Last Mile of the Way."  The church was filled with relative and 
friends from Claremont, Bacon's Castle and Newport News.  Her superintendent 
and five of her class mates from the hospital were present. The floral 
offering was large and beautiful.

  Her body rests beneath the green sod in the Claremont cemetery.  Her spirit 
has gone to that home not made with hands eternal in the heavens, where death 
cannot enter.

"There is no death! The stars go down 
  To rise upon some fairer shore. 
And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown 
  They shine forevermore.

There is no death! An Angel form 
  Walks o'er the earth with silent tread; 
He bears our best loved ones away, 
  And then we call them "dead."

He leaves our heart all desolate; 
  He plucks our fairest sweetest flowers 
Transplanted into bliss, they now 
  Adorn immortal bowers." 

          Her Pastor, 
               Rev. T.W. Page 


Myrtle GILL, nursing student- Buxton Hospital, Newport News, 
b. 1909, Charles City Co., d. 12 Mar 1929, Newport News, age 20, 
interred in Claremont Cemetery*, 13 Mar 1929, 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 8, No. 41, Mar. 28, 1929 

*Additional information: 

Her gravestone is pictured with her her Find a Grave Memorial, #37810510. 

D.Cert. #9763 doesn't give her birthdate; 
  gives dt/o William Walter Gill, b. Charles City Co., and 
  Virginia Myrtle Woolley, b. Isle of Wight Co. 


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