Keeling, Margaret B. 'Maggie' (Robinson) 1864 - 1914
KEELING, ROBINSON, GREGG
Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 3/4/2020 at 14:39:22
Elkader Register & Argus, Thur., 10 Dec. 1914. Volga City Views column.
In the death of Mrs. F. J. Keeling our community has lost one who's work was never ceasing in the endeavor to aid and assist in things which help build up. She was for years President of the Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society and in that capacity was ever at work. She also was the first President of the Cemetery Association and as such was very active in the many improvements that body has brought about. She was enthusiastic in regard to the new iron fence, which was erected late this fall, and the ornamental gateway at the cemetery entrance. It was she who suggested the name "Hill Crest" which is over that gateway. This community will miss Mrs. Maggy Keeling, as she was known to nearly all.
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In Some way the Eternal God is richer, His portion is larger, His inheritance more valuable, because of the consecrated lives of His children. "The Lord is my potion, saith my soul." "The Lord's potion is His people."
Margaret B. Robinson was born on Nov. 5th, 1864, at Invernas Province, Quebec, Canada. At the age of five she came, with her parents, to Iowa and ten years later moved near Volga City. In the days of her youth she learned to read and love the Holy Bible. Its percepts she cherished, to her its promises were yea and amen in Christ. She made a public confession of Jesus Christ as her personal Saviour very early in life, and this act of faith was to her a joy, a faith which purifieth the heart and worketh by love. Those who were privileged to visit with her, before her "departure to my Father's home" as she termed death, rejoiced in the reality of her faith, which was more precious that "gold that perisheth." No one can estimate the value of the promises of the Holy Bible to her, which she repeated so often and were confirmed to her in their fulfillment and caused it to be said. "There is no death; what seems so is transition.""Do not feel sad when I am gone, do not mourn, do not have one discouraging note in your song, in your prayer, in your sermon."
On Christmas Day, 1885, she was united in Holy marriage to F. J. Keeling. Together they united with the Presbyterian church of Volga City, where faith proved itself by works, and together they remained loyal to its teachings. The Holy Bible is the corner stone of their home and the words,
"One shall be taken and the other left," were not grievous words, but "the loosening of the silver cord, the lifting of the anchor, the home coming.""So fades a summer cloud away,
So sinks the gale when storms are o'er,
So gently shuts the eye of day,
So dies the wave along the shore."Those present when the sad end came were the following brothers: J. S. Robinson, of Cleghorn, Iowa; J. E. and D. C. Robinson, of Blooming Prairie, Minn.; Samuel, of Eagle Bend, Minn., and her sister, Mrs. C. A. Gregg, of Hartford, S.D.; who together with her husband and two other brothers, W. J. and T. G. Robinson, of Witchita, Kansas, feel their loss but in spirit rejoiceth in the Christian's triumph.
"Until the morning breaks and the shadows flee away, we lay thee away to sleep to awake immortal.
O, a beautiful thing is the flower that
fadeth,
And perishing, smiles on the chill
autumn wind;
A sweet desolation its ruin pervadeth,
A fragrant remembrance still lingers
behind.
O, a beautiful thing is the glad
consummation,
Of a life that is upright, untarnished
and pure;
That spirit, when freed from this earth's
animation,
Shall live, as the heaven's eternal
Endure !From Her Pastor.
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