In Memoriam.

 

Died, at Pasadena, California, July 19, Mrs. Mary E. Hadley; wife of Mr. T. J. Hadley of Olathe.

 

Nearly one year ago Mrs. Hadley went to California in the hope that in that fair land she might find surcease from pain and be restored to health. For the first few months the promise of health seemed to fulfill, but later the old disease with new complications asserted itself, until the regained strength was exhausted, then she and her friends feared her journey was to be fruitless.

 

Her sister, Miss Emma Bowen, and only daughter, Miss Hattie, were with her constantly, and also her mother, Mrs. M. A. Bowen, during the last few months and through the closing hours of her life. After death the mother and daughter brought her to her old home for burial. She was laid to rest on Thursday afternoon, July 25, the funeral services being held at the Christian church according to her own request, and conducted by Rev. R.H.. Fife. The hymns sung were those she had selected.

 

Early in life she professed a faith in Christ and was baptized in the Christian church, a faith which strengthened and heightened as the years came until it became a part of her life and all to her soul. She gave without stint of her time and strength in devotion to its purposes. Among other Christian work hers was the leading spirit in organizing the Mission Band of children of the Christian church. With sorrowing hearts this little band gathered around her casket and in loving remembrance laid their flowers on her grave. She, their teacher, may have passed from sight, but the spirit of her teachings will live in its influence upon their lives.

 

"Resigned" was the telegraphic message which came to Mrs. Hadley's waiting friends and signified to them that a peace, a rest, had come to her soul; that the faith which had been the guiding star of her life was going with her down to the water's edge, that it had robbed death of its shadows and left in her mind no doubt of the happiness in store for her in the home to which she was peacefully passing. The church full of sympathetic friends, the long line of followers to the cemetery, attested the esteem in which Mr. and Mrs. Hadley were held in this comjnunity where Mrs. Hadley had lived since early childhood.

 

Olathe Mirror

August 1, 1895

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