Death of Miss Gertrude Marley.
 
"Shall I have naught that is fair, saith he, have nanght but the bearded grain?"
 
The ruthless reaper amid the ripened harvest has again cut down one of the fairest flowers whose sweet fragrance has spread all through the field in which it was blooming, always giving to its surroundings its best and brightest
 
Died, at the home pf her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Marley, in Olathe, September 23, 1901, Miss Gertrude E. Marley, aged twenty-four years. The funeral services were held from the Presbyterian church September 24, conducted by Rev. A. V. Stout.
 
A few sentences yet of such import. They tell of a quiet sleeper whom we can awaken no more on earth. They tell of a mourning and desolate household from which the joy has gone and the severing of ties which close companionship has made strong and sweet. Look closer, they also tell of a glorious dawn when the night of sleep is o'er and tell of that "peace which passeth understanding," when Gethsemane is no more, when the ties broken here on earth will be riveted the closer in heaven. They tell of a life ended but an eternity begun.
 
The Carnation Club composed of Gertrude's girlhood friends, took charge of the flowers and attended the funeral in a body, each member depositing a bunch of carnations upon the already flower covered casket, as also did the Culture Class, the perfume of whose yellow and white roses whispered of the faithfulness of their records of the names written there and the purity of the lore of the members for this gentle sister.
 
At the close of the sermon Dr. Roberts of the Church of the World of Kansas City, Mo, as a friend of the family, arose and said, If an explanation is needed of my being here, it is that I loved her and whom she loved I loved." He talked of her life in this bright world and said that as well as the old the young, lovely and gifted beings must go hence, to carry sweet messages from our beautiful world to that world orer yonder, so I will "Say not goodnight but in a fairer clime bid me good morning."
 
Olathe Mirror
Spetember 26, 1901
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