Shirley Eve HUDDLESTON, 1927-1928

HUDDLESTON, LINDSAY

Posted By: Vounteer-Betty Hootman
Date: 7/9/2012 at 20:53:34

SHIRLEY EVE HUDDLESTON

Shirley Eve Huddleston was born Oct. 15, 1927, died April 21, 1928, aged 6 months and 6 days. Shirley Eve was an unusually sweet baby, made the more precious because she was the only daughter and sister. So little to command so much love, she has returned to the Father who only loaned her to us.

She leaves to mourn her loss, her parents, her little brothers, Robert and Jerrold, her Grandmother Lindsay, grandfather Huddleston, uncles, aunts and cousins, besides the many friends her winning smile had made.

“It is all for the best, so they said
As I stood by my dead.
But I doubted the word
That so often I heard;
I could catch but the moan
Of the mother, alone,
And feel but the blow
Which had stricken us so.

“Why,” I cried, “should it be
God must punish me?
Why should my baby die,
When are hundreds near by,
Old and feeble of breath,
Waiting only for death?”
And they answer me low;
“God has ordered it so.”

But some day through the years
That have ended our tears,
We will have memories rare
That no others may share;
We can look back and see
Why the blow had to be---
By that mound and its sod,
We are closer to God.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Scrapbook A, page 423, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua, IA