Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
MRS. JUDD YETTER PASSES AWAY

From the Salina journal.
There is no death but leaves behind
it the dark shadow of sorrow. TO the
aged it comes as the inevitable close
of life, the writing of stinis" ut the
end of the completed book with the
story ended. But when death comes
to the young man or woman just en-
tering upon life it leaves the story
Incomplete, and added to the sorrow
which has been the heritage of death
since its hand first touched humanity,
the future that might have been, the
love that awaits upon the threshold
to give To life its full frultiou i,
wrecked and in that wreckage lies
broken hopes. ambitions unfultlled
and Il work in -Ompiete.
Such was the death of Mrs. Lulu
Elizabeth Yeft"r. daughter of DIR. and
Mrs. l.. O. Housed, wife of Mr.. Judd
II. Yetter. Lulu Elizabeth Housed
was born at FIT. Madison, Iowa. A pr
ID, 1881. Six wears later <she can
with her parents 20 Kansas locatin
at Norton. Following the wanderings
of Il Methodist Itinerant. as her father
she lived at Norton, Russell, Belle
vile and BeioiI where her father was
stat toned rs pastor. In the fall +
1898 Miss Housed came % Salina like
a true daughter or Methodi>m and en-
tered the Salina We>ieyaH University.
Here sh.. met sir. Judd IL. Yetter and
acquaintance ripened into friendship
later became Il love upon the p TT of
both that found It's iuii fruit on in
marriage March Is, 1903 the follow
| ing Sune the young bride graduated
with honors from the classical depart
ment of the " esieyan.
This in brief is the story of the life
| that at GAP o'clock last night was
closed by death. 1t was only the first
chapter of Il lite story upon the untin
ished page of which death has w 'itterI
'.tinis' leaving ii home in darkness,
which tender memories of the past
and the certainty OF the resurrection
al )ne can bright en-. 1t was Il life
crowned by love, by tender mini-tr.-
tions. IA kindness that touched with
its gentle fingers all with whom she
came in co tact and gathered into her
The story as given here is but crude.
Those who knew her i'm the intimacits
of social lite; the family that sits in
sorrow and bereavement amid the
ashes of their hopes alone can iilumi
nate the story with the pictures of
her daily life from the promises of
chIldhood to the richer fulfillment of
womai hood
There are no words of sympathy
to the bereaved husband, parents,
brothers and sister that would not
sound as hollow as the clods that fail
upon the coffin lid. If there were we
would say them. But the English
language stands as the veriest pauper
in the presence of such sorrow and
we can only reach out the hand in
friendship across the chasm that
death has made. II is sorrow over
which time alone can cast its veil
but never efface, and the wounds that
are now bleeding, under the gentle
Manifestations of the years that are
to come, will leave naught but scars
covered by tender memory
From her childhood she was devot-
ed Christian and early became a menu
Der of the Methodist church. During
the latter months OF her attendance
at the university she was president of
the university Y w. c. A and IN
August, 1902, went as delegate to
the Interstate convention of this So
ciety which met that year at Lake
Geneva.
The funeral was very largely attend
ed The university closed for the day
to attend the services which were
held at the Methodist church. Mr..
and Mrs. c. c. Yetter. Mrs Charles
Benson, Mrs. Tawney. and c. D. Yet
ter attended from Ogallah- THE
WORLD with many warm friends ex-
tends sincere sympathy to this estima-
bic family who have been SO deeply
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