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less to keep her longer, and aftesr giving her loved ones the assurance “she was ready to meet her Savior” and telling them to “be good girls,” being conscious until the last, she peacefully passed away in her son-in-law’s, Len Slusher’s arms, and one more head had ceased its aching, one more heart has ceased to beat, one more soul has left its casket, Gone to Heaven’s safe retreat.“Ofc we may think we hear our Mother,OBITUARY“We saw not the life of the curtain,Nor heard the invisible door,As they passed where life’s problems uncertain,Will follow and vex them no more,We may linger to weep on the threshold,The threshold each mortal must cross,Then can lay a new wreath down upon it,To mark a new sorrow and loss- ’Mary Elizabeth (Yost) Miller, daughter of William and Jane (Hollingsworth) Yost was bornin Randolph County, Indiana,! Coming through the open door;: November 5, 1867, and departed i The we tearfully remember ;this life at the home of her | Mother will come no more.| daughter, \Mrs. Len Slusher, “All her earthly labors over,| Thursday, May 10th. 1923, aged!Gone writh cares no more oppressed,c _ ,] i r Where*the wicked cease from trouM-155 vearr, 6 months, and 5 days.» ing, iHer childhood days were spent! Antl the weary are at rest in the family home where she i Those of the immediate family grew to womanhood, attending | who are left to mourn her deschool at Olive Branch. After; parture, are: The husband,. which during her young woman- - children, and step-children pre-1 hood about thirty-seven years viously named; and also one ago, she was united in marriag# other step-granddaughter, AI to Linsey L. Ludwick. To this meada Pearl Miller ,one other union four children were born, son-in-law, Kenneth Orr, two two sons, Arlie and Kisor Lud- daughter-in-laws, Bertha and wick, and two daughters, Echo Jennie Ludwick; one step, who is now’ Mrs; Kenneth Orr, daughter-in-law, Gertrude and Ethel, who is now Mrs. Len Miller; an only brother, C. O. Slusher, in whose home she Yost and wife, of Indianapolis, passed away. * Indiana; one stepbrother, Will!* While these children were Picket, of Oregon, thirteen young in years, she was left a grandchildren. One grandchild, widow, the husband and father j0hn Virgil Slusher, and other dying April 16, 1902. After grandchildren have preceded his death she, with her her in death, j children, resided together, in *the home provided for them, in ^.r“ ^her father s yard, where they [n our hearts, we keep her memory no doubt lived together, sharing Of her deeds so kindly done.” each others’ )cares as best as \ Written by Grace Fisher.,. they could-,*tes the - boys were Funeral services were held atlarge enough to be of some help the Maxville church on the toward the support of the afternoon of Saturday, May 12, family, and she being blessed 1923, conducted by Rev. Jesse with a helpful mother living so 0ren assisted by Rev. George near them, they all together, no Vanderburg, after which the redoubt, lived very happily to mains were interred in Wood-gether on the Yost homestead. lawn cemetery. Sweet be thjrv i But since this time her loving resti. mother has been caled from, labor to reward, having died'! abuut fifteen years ago. The j : father also passed away eight years ago. *| In December,® 1904, she was united again in marriage to:John W. Miller, her presentbereaved husband, to which | union one daughter, Vemice,:' was born, January 3, 1906. By ; i this union there were also added i to the family circle, three stepchildren, Charles N. Miller, j (deceased); Tarrie Miller, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Mrs.;Arvilla Denton, of Winchester,Indiana, and one step-grand-, daugher.now Mrs. Fred Swank, also of Winchester, Indiana. Many years ago she joined the Shiloh church, but for several years she has been almost de-! prived of attending church or! any meeting of any kind on ac-1 count of ill health. How ever inthe last months of her affliction, t the Bible has been of great com-1 fort to her, as the Bible and her I children, especially her youngest child, Vernice, seemed to be her deepest concern. |All the years the writer lived a close neighbor to her, she has 1 been handicapped with a frail 1 body and ill health, yet she was! of a jovial disposition, and with j an unsubdued will she would g«i about her daily tasks. Possibly 1 many times overtaxing her j, strength but in the last months of her life, she had almost given up work, and on last New Year’s Day, she was taken to het daughter's where she was well! cared for, and all done to relieve | her suffering (which was great j at times) that loving hands could do, yet all proved power-
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Ridgeville, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 01, 1923
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