BRISLIN, Anna

BRISLIN

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 2/27/2005 at 16:18:08

Anna Brislin Called To Her Reward

Pneumonia totally conquered in the battle that Annie Brislin waged against it for a few days.
The sad news was painful to the entire neighborhood. When it became known that this young lady of twenty-one summers had passed over to the great hereafter many a sigh was heard and tear shed.
The angel of death descended about ten o'clock Sunday forenoon and converted a happy home into a sad one for the second time this year.

Annie possessed a charming and cheerful disposition and had the unique faculty of looking at the bright side of everything.
Her highest joy was to see others happy, to see them laugh and make merry and she contributed what she could to that end.
Behind this joyful exterior lay a deep religious spirit urging her on to the cultivation of her soul for eternity and to lay up treasures for the day that came much sooner that she expected.

The sympathies of the whole community go out unstinted to Mr. Brislin and children.
The Mother was called early in the year- now the daughter, and if the condolences of a mourning people can in the least make more bearable the grief of the Brislin home in the two deaths during the year they can be assured that their afflection has touched the hearts of their neighbors.
This was expressed in the magnitude of the funeral and in the many tears that were shed and in the bowed heads that were lowered without knowing it as Annie's coffin was let down into the grave.

The funeral was attended by friends from far and near and the length of the procession as it moved to St. Patrick's church to the solemn sound of the death bell was remarked by everyone.

There remains to mourn Annie's death, her father, James, Bridget, Mary, Tim, John, Gertrude,Margaret and Agnes.

Six young ladies dressed in white acted as honorary pall bearers.
They were Estella Cooney, Rose Geary, Ella Reed, Loretta Kelsh, Regina and Nellie Hogan.

The pall bearers were Ray Hogan, Ben Barr, Redmond McManus, Willie Kelly, Joe O'Donnell and Johnnie Hogan.

Deceased was a mmeber of the Royal Neighbors, St. Veronica's League and the Young Ladies Sodality and each attended the funeral in a body.

May she rest in peace.