Final rites were held at the St. John Methodist Church, Friday October 27. Interment was directed in the church cemetery by the Hines Brothers funeral staff . Obituary reprinted from the program for the funeral services of Marie Woodham Peoples. It is said that there are three words in the English Vocabulary that are more solemn than all of the others. They are life, death and eternity.
Life is more solemn that death, to live is more serious than to die.
The object of Christmas death was life. A Christian s death gives them a more abundant life. Death is a joyful messenger of peace whose kind hand opens to the weary pilgrim the gate of immortality and lets the oppressed go free. Later she joined the Shiloh United Methodist Church where she served faithfully until the end. She attended the public schools of Darlington County.