Ella Berryhill

BERRYHILL, DAY, BECK, MORRISON, PINEGAR, HOOK

Posted By: Judy Kelley (volunteer) (email)
Date: 3/27/2009 at 15:23:52

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Ella Berryhill, daughter of Willam D. and Anne Day Berryhill, was born in Iowa City on February 14, 1862. Her early life was spent in Iowa City and it was here she received her education. In 1890 she was married to William Beck who died in 1920.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. R.M. Morrison of Morning Sun and Mrs. Roy Pinegar of Los Angeles, California; a son Joseph, at home; one sister, Mrs. Emma Hook of Wapello; and two grandchildren. One daughter, Lemma Beck, died in 1942.

She was a charter member of the Home Club, a social organization of many years standing; the Neighborhood Club, more recently started but her highest devotion and deepest loyalities were to Christ and her church. Always an interested member of the women's societies and Sunday School, a faithful attendant of its services and supporter of its local and missionary program throughout the world. Her memory was filled with the rich experiences of a lifetime of Christian fellowship and out of her appreciation she chose as one of the hymns to be sung at this service, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds Our Hearts in Christian Love."

She has been in failing health for about three years but would not admit it to herself or to her friends. Even her physicians were amazed at her vital resources in spite of her known physical condition. She reminded one constantly of Tennyson's "Ulysses."

"I will drink life to the lees,
All times I have enjoyed.
I am a part of all that I have met
Yet all experience is an arch where through
Gleams in that untravelled world
whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.
Now dull it is to pause to make and end,
To rust unburnished not to shine in use."

Or of Abraham of whom it was said that: "He looked for a city which had foundations, whose builder and maker is God."

O sweet and blessed country,

The home of God's elect!

O sweet and blessed country

That eagar hearts expect!

Jesus in mercy bring us to that dea__
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