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MISS ELIZABETH .SUITER Lust Kites HeldMayor Elizabeth Suiter services held October 16The small, white Central Christian Church of Winnsboro was filled Friday, Oct. 16. as Winnsboroans from alJ walks of life gathered to pay their last respects to one of the city's most beloved leaders at the 2:00 p.m. funeral service-, of mayor Elizabeth .Suiter |Burial was at Lee cemetery J under the direction of McCrary j Waggoner-Edwards. jMiss Suiter, 5.1. collapsed and j died Wednesday evening. Oct. 11.]TheCOLUMNtatorBy JACK E. BLAKE• EVERY MAN’S death dimin- j ishes me Therefore do not send , to know for whom the bell tolls ! It tolls for thee —John Donnet i * Ievery CITIZEN of Winns-j born has )x*en dimmshed by the i death of our beloved mayor, j Elizabeth Suiter, for she had) dedicated her lift* and abundant j energies to the service of her j community. It was not our priv- j ilege to it now Miss Suiter very i long . . a little over a year, m fart . . . but we came to appro- j date her dedication to her eau.v j es. tier wide compassion for the j needy, her Christian virtues, her] H-lfles.-. willingness to serve oth-!Many tunes she had said that she tried constantly to fulfill the duties of her office as had her predecessor. E. I.. (Lefty) Ney-land, who ironically had died almost exactly two years before Miss Suiter was stricken that fateful Wednesday night.She presided with a firm but gentle hand at city council meetings, most of which we attended in the course of our duties. Her concern ior her community's best interests was evident at every meeting. Sometimes she was called on to make Solomon-like decisions involving city matters, and she did .so with a sense of justice and fairness that is rare in these times.Her church was the benefactor of much of her benevolence, and its pastor and members know well the many things she did for the small congregation of the Central Christian Church.As a clubwoman her goals were not personal glory nor social prestige but the doing of good, aid much good she did. When she was recognized as Clubwoman of the Year” she accepted the honor graciously and modestly.As a person . . . well, we were very fond of Miss Suiter, just as was everyone who knew her. She was so nice, so gracious. so downright good.The memory of Elizabeth Suiter will not soon fade from the minds of Winnsboroans. May she rest in peace.t t tLOTS OF PEOPLE keep bivds for pets, but Mr*. Kate Cura-iiiiag* has an unusual one — size-wise, anyway. It's a baby hummingbird, and it sips honey-and-water from a bottle, perches on .Mrs. Cummings' finger and plays hide-and-seek with her. Mrs. Cummings, who found the bred injured and saved it, thinks (See COLUMN, Page 2)at a meeting of the directors of the Autumn Trails Assn., of which she as mayor was an ex officio member.Miss Suiter was born Oct. II 1911. in Winnsboro. to Will I) an;! Minnie Suiter. She was agraduate of Winnsboro High School and earned her law degree I rum the University of Texas to hoiShe entered law practice here with her late father and served two terms in the state legislature from 194.1-41 She wav amember of the Winnsboro citycouncil for six years before succeeding to the mayorship in 1962 upon the death of mayor E. L. i Lefty ' Neylaml on Oct, 21 of that year.* -The next spring she was elected mayor in her own right.A church worker of indomin-able spirit, Miss Suiter was adeaconess of the Central Christian Church, secretary of the church board, youth sponsor, chairman of the education department, a member of the choir and the Christian Women’s Fellowship, and had been planning a world tour of Christian missions ai ;he time of her death. She had also set up the church library and contributed to many church project*.A diligent worker toward the betterment of her community, she was loader of the Camp Fire Girls sponsored by the Edelweiss Club and had spent many hours over a period of three years to classify book*, solicit contributions for and help restore the Carnegie Library. She was a director of Winnsboro Hospital, chairman of the library board and active in the work of the (Sec SUITER, Page 5)Bovine rarity recorded by Taylor’s cowA livestock oddity so rare that the odds on it are not even recorded m veterinary textbooks occurred recently to a Holstein cow belonging to R. D. Taylor of Route 1, Pickton.On Aug. 15 of this year, the cow* gave birth to a fine heifer call . . . and then on Oct. 10 -— less than two months later — she did a repeat performance.According to local veterinarian Or. W M. Thompson, a split birth or separated twins case does happen occasionally, t it it is considered quite rare.Rath calves were perfectly normal and fully developed, and after each birth mama and baby did just fine.Preacher get* mump*; meeting to continueLanier Stevens of Quitman will fill in for Qllie Duffield Jr. of Ft. Worth for the remaining services of the gospel meeting currently being held at the Church of Christ in Winnsboro.Mr. Duffield came down with the mumps Wednesday.The meeting runs through Sunday, Oct. 25, with services held at 6:30 a rn. and 7:30 p.in. weekdays and at 10:45 a m. and 6:30 p.m. on SundayVisitors in the home of Mr. i and Mrs. George Coston Sunday! were Mrs. Coicon’s sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Ger-j aid Smith of Atlanta- They had
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Winnsboro News
Winnsboro, Texas, US
Thu, Oct 22, 1964
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