Minnie (Calhoun) Harnden 1867 - 1913

HARNDEN, CALHOUN

Posted By: Linda H Meyers (email)
Date: 5/31/2008 at 23:19:03

Obituary of Mrs. Harnden.
The funeral oservices of Mrs. E. H. Harnden of Pleasant Grove, were held from the late home at 10:30 Wednesday and from the Adventist church of this city at 1:30 . Elder J. G. Lamson being assisted by Elder A. R. Ogden and Dr. C. W. Heald, interment being at this place.
Mrs. Harnden was formerly Miss Minnie Calhoun, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Calhoun, and was born near Blue Earth, Minn. Sept. 6, 1867. She died Nov. 17, 1913, aged 46 years, 2 months, and 11 days.
She came with her family as a child to Nevada and here spent her youthful days and much of her later life. She was graduated from the local high school in 1885 and afterwards attended school and taught at Battle Creek, Mich., where also, in June 1896, she was married to E. H. Harnden, whose home was in this county but who at the time was taking a nurse's course in the Battle Creek sanitarium. To this union no children were born but on the death of a sister-in-law, Mrs. Harnden took upon herself the rearing of her niece Helen Calhoun and nephew Glenn Calhoun, and these latter have been known to many by their foster mother's name. Mrs. Harnden's father died some time ago, but an aged mother and one brother of her own immediate family remain. Mr. Harnden's relatives, many of them live near the old homestead, and their kindly ministrations in the bereavement of a loved one has helped much to make the great loss of a loving companion easier to bear. To all these and the many friends and neighbors who helped, the gratitude of the family is extended.
Mrs. Harnden was a woman of more than ordinary talent and ability. Her parents were members of the Seventhday Adventist faith when the subject of this sketch was born, and when she was about fifteen she was baptized into the same faith. After closing her school work in Battle Creek she became librarian of the Tabernacle church and most loyally and faithfully fulfilled her mission at some very important crisis in the history of the church at that place. Her whole ambition was to live a life of service for others and in this she surely succeeded. It is impossible to nullify the influences of such a life, for the circles ever broaden, and we doubt not eternity will reveal a depth of consecrated services of which but comparatively little has shown upon the surface.

---From the Nevada Journal