LEMLEY, Malinda (HEADLEY)

LEMLEY, HEADLEY, DEBOLT, BASSINGER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/27/2015 at 10:47:49

Obituary ~ Malinda (Headley) Lemley
September 14, 1842 ~ January 14, 1925

Leon Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
Thursday, January 29, 1925

Malinda Headley, daughter of James and Sarah Headley, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, Sept. 14, 1842 and departed this life Jan. 14, 1925 at the age of 82 years three months and 14 days.

She was united in marriage to David A. Lemley also of Greene County, Pennsylvania, Jan. 1, 1865, and to this union were born (8) children six of whom are left to mourn the loss of their kind and loving Mother. Two children died at infancy. The living children are James V. Lemley of Leon, Iowa; Sadie Debolt of Kellerton, Iowa; Ida Bassinger of Maloy. She is also survived by Johnny Lemley to whom she was a mother since he was two years of age,and one brother William H. Headley of West Jefferson, Ohio ten grandchildren,fourteen great-grand children, several nieces and nephews and a host of friends.

She united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in girlhood and has never ceased to love and trust in her blessed Savior and rest upon His promises.

She moved to Iowa in October, 1868 and settled in Benton Township Ringgold County, on the farmwhere she lived ever since. She had lived a widowed life since 1907, her husband having passed on to rest at that time.

She has been an invalid for more than a year and has been cared for by her daughters, Myrtle and Clara who did all that kind and loving hands could do to relieve her suffering. She bore her sickness with uncomplaining patience and was ready and willing to go when the time came.

There is no death,
The stars go down to rise
Upon some fairer shore,
And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown
They shine forever more.

There is no death,
The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer shower,
To golden grain of mellow fruit
Or rainbow tinted flower.

There is no death
The leaves may fall,
The flowers may fade and pass away;
They only wait through wintery hours.
The coming of the May.

And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirit tread,
For all the boundless universe is life,
There is no dead.

[Interment was made at Platte River Cemetery near Maloy, Ringgold County, Iowa.]

Contributor notes: This is a transcription of an article copied "With the permission from the Leon Journal Reporter" October 8, 2002 Copied by R.R. from Genealogy.com Dec. 12, 2008. Sadie Debolt, daughter of the deceased, was my Maternal Great-Grandmother.

~ Contributed by N.M.S., December 2008