The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-06-10
OBITUARY.
MRS. Helen cnarrille Runals.

MRS. Helen Charrille Runals.
Pale, withered hands that more than four
score years
Had wrought for others-soothed the hurt OF
tears,
Rocked childrens cradles. eased the fever
smart,
Dropped tenderest balm in many an aching
heart
Now, stirless folded. like wan rose leaves
pressed
Above the snow and silence of her breast.
In mute appeal they tell of la bors done
! And well-earned rest that came with set of
| sun;
From the worn brow the lines of care are
swept
AS if an angels kiss, the while she sleps,
Had smoothed the cobweb wrinkles quite
away,
/ And given back the peace of childhood's day.
i And, gazing where she lies, we feel that pain
! And parting cannot cleave her soul again.
And we are sure that they who saw her last
In that dim vista which we call the past,
Who never knew her old and weary-eyed
Remembering best the maiden and the bride,
Have sprung to greet her with the olden
/ speech
The dear sweet names no later love can teach,
| And welcome homer they cried, and grasped
/ her hands
So dwells the mother in the best of lands.
On Sunday afternoon, May 30, and
Memorial day, just as the sun dropped
in the shining west, another of the old
pioneers of the northwest entered into
everlasting peace.
In the death of Helen Charlie Run
ais Kenosha loses one of it's Oldest, best
beloved and most respected citizens.
She was born in New York State in
1916 and came to Kenosha-then
Southport her husband, Eli G..
Runals, in 1916, bringing with her two
sons, Clarence Lee Grand and Eli
Griffith. A home was Immediately
established here and a circle of friends
formed that only widened and deepened
with increasing years, and whose magic
charm was never broken save by the
advent of the angel Death, as one by
one the members have drifted with the
"pale boatman" into the silent land.
Growing with the times and town,
her influence for good was ever felt and
recognized. An active member of st.
Matthews church, she was ever ready
to do her part in social and religious
life Three children were born to her
here, Ida Belle, Frank and Charrille,
and the Runals family have always
been closely identified with the best in
terests and growth of Kenosha. Fifty
one years she has lived in our midst
a devoted mother, loving friend and
helpful neighbor, whose loss was felt
throughout the entire community.
Wherever she was best known, she was
most loved, and when it was whispered
that the last earthly change was pr
ing, friends gathered, feeling thatNer
life work was we'll completed and her
victory won. Calmly and peacefully,
with mental faculties unimpaired to the
last hour, her long and helpful life was
closed in the sweet summer twilight of
Memorial day, in the quiet of her cot
tage home with her children about her.
The loving, tired heart quietly ceased
to beat, and mother had fallen asleep.
No line of care or sorrow on her face
recalled the struggles and storms
through which she must have passed in
eighty zone years of human experience.
In beautiful bower OF fragrant flowers
carried by loving hands to her home,
with the halo of the light eternal shin
ing on her brow, she slept with
"a smile upon erlips as if she said,
None know life's secret save the happy dead.