Katheryn Leella Coe (1905)
COE
Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 8/15/2007 at 19:19:23
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, March 30, 1905Miss Katie Coe of Indianola was brought to Fairview last Thursday for burial.
________________________Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, April 6, 1905Fairview
After five weeks illness Katie Coe died at her home in Indianola last Tuesday morning. She was brought to Fairview for burial Thursday afternoon where a short service was conducted by Rev. Caldwell of Van Meter.
________________________The Indianola Herald
Indianola, Iowa
April 6, 1905
Page 2, Column 3Katheryn L. Ella Coe, oldest daughter of Mrs. Ella Coe died at her mother’s home in this city on Tuesday morning, March 21, 1905.
Katheryn was born in Madison Co., Sept. 28th, 1883. When but eleven years of age she gave herself to God under the careful leadership of Rev. McKendry Stahl and on June 30th, 1895 united with the Fairview church, Desoto circuit. After the death of her father in 1891, Katheryn came with the family to Indianola where she has since resided.
Here a new life opened to her and she entered it enthusiastically. In the college she soon found that her chief delight was in music, and specializing upon it became so proficient that her services as instructor were in ready demand. In the church, too, she very soon found her place. She gave to and received from the Epworth League great help but her heart turned naturally to the children in the Junior League and Sunday School, with them she was at her best. Her little leaguers loved and trusted her perfectly and the ideas that she has fixed in the souls of our little ones will be for her an abiding monument. Katheryn was a happy Christian: Her cheerfulness was habitual and noticeable to every one. Tennyson’s line describes her well. “An open hearted maiden, pure and true.” Now she is passed over, but few rational moments were granted her during the five long weeks preceding the end, but in those moments she spoke with great assurance of peace and of trust and joyfully sang the songs of the redeemed.
The whole community is keenly sensible of its loss but of course the blow falls heaviest upon the family and especially upon the Mother. She has learned by sad but blessed experience how to use the Burden Bearer.
The Funeral services held in her beloved church on March 23rd was most impressive and beautiful. A great bank of flowers spoke the love of friends, to one who in her youthful beauty died. Her pastor Rev. G. W. L. Brown spoke touchingly of her consecrated life and brought comfort to all hearts. Interment was made near Fairview Church in Madison County on the afternoon of the same day.
Katheryn Coe lived and died a Christian. God counts that success.
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