Obituary for Kate Elizabeth Powers
Contributed and Copyrighted by Ed Godbold
 

THE COLUMBIA RECORDER
DECEMBER 11, 189O
Obituary of Kate Elizabeth Powers

A veil of unalterable sadness enveloped our fair town last Saturday, penetrating many hearts and causing grief which it were vain to attempt to banish. The death angel who has been hovering near for many months has descended and with his remorseless scythe, cut down one of Columbia's fairest and sweetest flowers, Miss Kate Powers. While just emerging from maidenhood to womanhood, with life with its beauty stretched before her in a glistening panorama filled with the golden nectar which youth alone can impart, felt disease which spares not one, laid hold of this loved young lady with a relentless clasp and now in a few months, God calls her soul, saying "I love thee, I love thee, pass under
the rod". Under the existing circumstances it seems doubly hard to the sorrowing ones to yield their claim, but Christ, who guides this dear spirit through the gloom and conveys it to a better and fairer land, will comfort these left behind, in this their darkest hour.

     O! Ye weary ones and sad ones-
        Droop not, faint not, by the way;
     Ye shall join the loved and lost ones
        In the last of perfect day.

In addition to many fond relatives whose hearts are saddened by this event, a host of friends and associates, male and female, those of her childhood days and those who have stayed by her in later years, witnesses of her pure and sweet life, these are likewise burdened with grief, at the thought that she whom we have all loved has gone from us forever. But though she has passed deaths gloomy river her sweet face will yet live in our memory and in our love will live forever.  The burial service was conducted Sunday afternoon by Rev. Mr. Culbreath in the presence of a large body of friends and relatives. To all, the dear ones stricken with grief by this untimely departure, we offer the deepest sympathy and may this beloved daughter and sister prove a ministering angel to guide them into Paradise.
 

 

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