The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-03-23
OBITUARY..
Be still prepared for death and death or
life shall thereby be the sweeter.-
Shakespeare.


During the course of our newspaper
career, we have written many obituaries
and i'm each case tried to place oul
sympathies with those mourning fOI
loved ones, but how far we came from
the mark we never realized until Mon
day last, when the ground of the Sacred
Heart cemetery closed over Mrs. John
Kavanaugh nee Eleanor Murray-Our
beloved mother.
Born in Fredericton, y. b., Nov. IL,
1886, her early years were spent in that
city, where she met her now feeble
husband the marriage being solemniz-
ed on July 9th, 1860, the young couple
starting housekeeping and the hus-
band following the occupation of con-
tracing shoemaker. In 1880 they NOV
ed with the family consisting of one
son Thomas, a young man, the writer,
babe in arms, and foster daughter,
Scarcely was she settled in her new
home than the eldest son met death by
drowning, July 10, 1881. This was a
severe shock from which she never re-
covered, that date marking the first de
cline in her health, until the present
winter when she seemed to gain new
strength and vigor it being our hope
that she would live for few years
longer, but "Man proposes but God dis
poses" and on Sunday, March H., she
early took to her bed, when in spite of
the best care her pure soul passed
peacefully away at 7:10 Il. NJ. Friday.
Born of family whose Catholicity
was of generations (her father being a
cousin of Bishop Dollard, the first
Bishop of Fredericton she was intense.
ly religious, and died as she always
prayed to die-fortified by all the rites
of Holy Mother church, at the hands
of our beloved priest Father Cullinane.
In far off New Brunswick today is
one surviving sister, Mrs. j. Meagher, a
nephew +. Il Meagher school inspector
at Bath, n. b., niece Mrs. DIR. McKin-
non at Antigonishe, n. a., another sister
Mrs. Thos. Sullivan of Boston, Mass,
in addition to her husband who is in
poor health at Brockway, and the
writer.
The funeral left the late home in
Brockway at 8 o'clock Monday A. NJ.
reaching the Sacred Heart church,
Yale. at 1890, where the pastor Father
Cullinane celebrated the Requiem High
Mass, and gave the last absolution pass
ing few remarks based Oh the con-
versation between Martha and Our
Saviour in reference to the death of
Lazarus, as recorded in John XI, 2l-26,
the essence of which is faith "Lord if
thou hadst been here my brother had
not died." and the reply III am the re-
surrection and the life, he that belieyeth
in Me, although he be dead, shall live"
The aim of the elegy was to bring out
the beauties of true faith, that went
beyond the portal of death, which at
best is only return of the spirit, that
came from God to its rightful home.
At the conclusion of the church SER
vices the procession reformed and
moved to the Sacred Heart cemetery
where the last words were spoken and
the grave closed over the best friend
we had on earth-our mother, and on
Bonded knees we involuntary repeated
"God bless you mother you did your
duty and did it well, and may God
have mercy on your SOUL"
In behalf of my father and myself
/ wish to thank the many neighbors for
their kindness, and most especially
Father Cullinane, the members of the
Sacred Heart choir and George Cough
the Yale undertaken, all of whom did
so much to relieve us of care when our
hearts were sick unto death.
JOSEPH KAyANAUGH.