HAWKINS, Jennie Elizabeth 1864 - 1927

HAWKINS, COLWELL

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:22:53

"The Fairfield Weekly Ledger-Journal"
Sunday, June 26, 1927
Page Five

OBITUARY

Jennie Elizabeth HAWKINS

It is with a sad heart that I pen a tribute to such a good woman as Miss Jennie HAWKINS, whom it has pleased our Heavenly Father to take from us, and it has brought a weight of sorrow and a burden of grief to the near and dear ones and to the Parsonville community where she was loved and respected by all.

Jennie was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs Michael HAWKINS, born in New London, Ia., February 28, 1864. The family moved to Jefferson county in 1880 and she has spent her entire life here, being one of a large family. Many responsibilities fell upon her shoulders and yet never a murmur of complaint was she ever heard to utter, always going about her duties with a smile and a pleasant cheering word to all that she came in contact with. Jennie always had enjoyed excellent health but she was ever sympathetic to those that were afflicted with poor health.

Sabbath morning she arose in her usual health, doing the morning chores, making all preparations to attend the morning services at the Catholic church in Fairfield. But alas! little thinking that she was so soon chosen to join the Church Triumphant for the Heavenly Father had said "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Come up higher."

Medical skill having been summoned was of no avail and after five hours of suffering she quietly and peacefully laid down the burdens of life and went to meet her Savior, whom she had loved and served every day and hour while on earth. One that lives the Catholic Christian life that our dear one did need make no preparations for the better land. She being of a sweet and gentle disposition, being a perfect Martha in her devotion to her home and her religion, and her kind charity acts will never be forgotten by her neighbors and friends for there never was a call for help but what Jennie's open purse was ready to alleviate suffering of humanity. Father and mother, three brothers and two sisters have preceded her to Heaven and are welcoming her on that eternal shore.

She leaves to mourn her loss a brother James, and sister Tressie as they lived on the old homestead together, and a sister Mrs. Matilda COLWELL of Aurora, Ill., and other relatives and a host of friends and neighbors.

And a shadow of gloom hovers over the entire community while we mourn the loss of such a good woman. But our loss is but her gain. Farewell.
-- Mrs. Jennie Prince.

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