Miss Cecelia Alferman Killed Wednesday

Automobile Accident Near Cockwell, Mo. Fatal to Well Known Olathean

Miss Cecelia Alferman was born on the 28^th day of March, 1870. Her parents Mr. A.S. and Mrs. Mary J. Alferman were at this time living at St. Charles, Mo.

For the past forty years the Alferman home has been a few miles east of Olathe. All during these years they have made countless friends by the ever willing spirit of interest in the acquaintances.

Miss Alferman has long been a member of the Community Congregational church. Much of her time and effort has been given to its program and advancement. At the time of her death she was presidents of its “Ladies” organization.

The untimely death of Miss Alferman has been a most severe shock to all of us. We can hear it much better due to the fact that we knew her so well. Often we have heard her quote from a poem she loved. The thought being that it did not make any difference if the things which happened appeared to be good or bad because it was God’s will to be one. This guiding principle in her life made Miss Alferman extremely just in her attitude and relationships with others. Few were her words of ill toward anyone.

Each morning upon arising Miss Alferman read: “The beauty of work depends on whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack an enemy that must be vanquished before night or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as a friend who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigue.” Her home, her lovely flower garden, and her work in the church all showed this spirit of one who found in work a friend and who did it well.

Few are as well read and love books as did Miss Alferman and her brother. No more fitting close than be given this sketch than a favorite poem:

“No funeral gloom, my dear, when I am gone,

Corpse gazing, tears, black raiment, graveyard grimness/

Think as me as withdrawn into the dimness yours still, you mine,

Remember all the best of our past moments and forgive the rest;

And so, tow where I wait, come gently on.”

As Miss Alferman has gone to join her father, mother, and sister, Minnie, we, her friends, with her brother, await our time “To come gently on.”

The funeral services were held from the Community church on Friday, August 21, 1931. Burial was in the Olathe Cemetery.

Olathe Mirror,

August 27, 1931