Olive Catherine Gabbert (1927)

GABBERT

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 2/15/2011 at 16:45:46

Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, August 25, 1927
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Death of Miss Olive Gabbert

Fairview, August 23. Special—Miss Olive Gabbert, who has been in failing health for the past two years, passed away at her home in the Fairview neighborhood last Thursday, August 18th, a few minutes after twelve o’clock. She took a severe cold late in the winter from which she never rallied but gradually grew worse. Her suffering the past few months has been intense and death came as a happy release. She has lived in this community all her life, dying on the farm where she was born.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, September 1, 1927

After 61 years and 18 days filled with loving service and exemplifying the love and purity of her Savior, Olive Catherine Gabbert came to the close of her life’s day. For her the sun set in the west.

At the age of 20 years Olive found the secret of a joyful, hopeful life for it was then she came to love her Savior in his pardoning ways. Life after that was not a life all selfish striving, but she sought to him the Christ life and serve Him more faithfully.

And as a heart warm and filled with a Savior’s love always needs the best there is of grace and strength and desire to beautify the life with purity and --------. Olive Gabbert about 12 years ago found it was her happy privilege to make a complete consecration of her life and her all to Christ and here His cleansing power and the filling of the Holy Spirit a clear heart is the greatest power in all the world, a power that reaches out and beyond this life. On August 18, 1927, Olive Gabbert came to the setting of the sun here to meet the sunrise of the eternal tomorrow but the power of her pure life, the ---- of her holy consecrated walk among her friends, fellow church members and neighbors, will live on through the coming years.

Olive Catherine Gabbert, one of ten children born to Michael and Mary Gabbert, was born on July 31, 1866 while the family was living on the Gabbert homestead south of Earlham, Iowa and here she spent all but four years of her life. Olive was the sixth child to join the family circle in the Heavenly Home.

She taught school for a number of years and blessed the lives of her students with the influence of her life lived in Christ and gave generously of her love and strength to the loved ones in her home.

Olive Gabbert was a loved member of the Earlham Friends Church and was faithful in her attendance at the services of the church as long as her health would permit. She loved the church and gave freely to its support.

She had been in failing health for the past two years and suffered through it all. She loved life much but was happy and triumphantly but gave it up comforted and strengthened by the assurance that death for her was the crowning.

Funeral services were conducted at the Earlham Friends Church on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 20 by Willis and Nora Craven, who served in the absence of the pastor necessitated by his illness. Interment was in Earlham Cemetery.

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