Knight, Alma Lavine (1889-1937)

KNIGHT, LAVINE, JENKINS, LUNDQUIST, JACOBSON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 4/23/2017 at 09:34:02

Stanhope Observer, Stanhope, Iowa, Thursday, October 28, 1937

Mrs. D.R. Knight Passes Away

A well beloved resident of this community Mrs. D.R. Knight was called by death at the County Hospital Sunday following a paralytic stroke at her home ten days before. She was taken to the hospital Thursday evening.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the house at 1:30 and at the Christian church at 2 o'clock with Rev. C.F. Schmidt officiating. Mrs. I.A. Anderson and Mrs. Guy Knudson accompanied by Mrs. Wendell Carlson sang, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus", "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Have Thine Own Way Lord." The casket bearers were: L.Q. Dick, Bert Riley, Jackson Kent, Fred Engstrom, Edgar Whalen and William Ahrens. Fosters of Webster City were in charge. Burial was made in Lawn Hill cemetery.

Alma, daughter of August and Anna Lavine was born at Ridgeport, Iowa on June 15, 1889 and died at the hospital in Webster City, Iowa on Oct. 24, 1937. Her age was 48 years 4 mo. 9 days.

When but a child of two years of age she with her parents came to Stanhope, Iowa where she has lived all of her life.

On February 26, 1908 she was married to Dannie Knight and together they established their home on the Knight farm a mile and a half south of Stanhope.

One child, a daughter, Marvel was born to this union.

At the age of ten during the ministry of Ed Wright she became a member of the Stanhope Church of Christ and in this church she served faithfully until her death. During the nearly ten years of the writers ministry in Stanhope's church there have been very few services held in the church that were not attended by both Mr. and Mrs. Knight. It was never too cold, nor too hot, nor too rainy for them to get to the Lord's house and the service of worship. When there was any work to be done you could surely depend on Dannie and Alma to be there to help. In the thirty years of my ministry I have never met more faithful consecrated Christian workers.

Her home and her church were the first considerations in life for her and what an example of faithfulness as wife, mother and Christian worker she has set for all who learned to know her.

Her call to come up higher came early in life, but when we think of the number of years of service and the measure of her faithfulness there will be few who have earned a better right to hear our Masters blessed ecomium, "Well done good and faithful servant enter thou into the joys of the Lord."

Her mother and father preceded her in death, one in 1911 and the other in 1923. Her sister, Agnes the wife of Oscar Jenkins died in 1935.

There remain to mourn her going, her husband, daughter, Mrs. Conrad Lundquist and the little grandson, David Edward and her sister, Mrs. H. Jacobson besides a host of relatives and friends.

The words of poet, Whittier seem so fitting.

I know not what the future hath, of marvel or surprise.
Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies.
And so beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled ear.
No harm from Him can come to me on ocean or on shore"
"The dear Lord's best interpreters are humble human souls"
The gospel of a life like her is more than books or scrolls"