The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-03-21
Death of Mrs. r. 7. Curtin.


day afternoon. Mar. IL. 1919. at o'clock
after an illness covering period of thirty
FIVE years.
Mrs. Curtin was the daughter OF Robt
and Mary E. Watson, and was reared
to womanhood in the family home al
Madrid Bend, KY, seventeen miles
north of Tiptonville, Tenn. She was
born March 20, 1857, therefore was
nearly 81 years of age. On October %,
1878, she was united in marriage to
r. 7. Curtin. One child was born to
the union, girl, who lived only twenty
two months.
Mrs., Curtin is survived by her hus-
band, her mother, sister, Mrs. Fred
Dahnke, Union City, and brother,
Daniel, who lives in Texas.
Locating after marriage with Mr..
Curtin in Union City, Mrs. Curtin
joined the Methodist Church in 1879.
She was charter member of the Wom-
ans Missionary Society of this church.
She was woman OF rare mental quail
ties and serenely beautiful character.
It was therefore not strange that she
accepted her suffering with a philo-
sophical spirit and deep and abiding
trust in God. The minister thus spoke
of her illness:
For thirty-five years she had been
sufferer from rheumatism, which be-
came more acute with the passing of
time, and for over three years she has
been a helpless invalid. Few people
have ever suffered SO long and so acute
ly; certainly there has not been another
in all this community that has endured
such intense and prolonged physical
distress. Yet she refused to have her
sense of suffering deadened by the use
of pallatiyes, so she drank the cup of
suffering to the dregs. The same reso-
luton that enabled her to suffer also
kept her courageous, SO that whoever
saw her in her sickness could hardly |
realize how great her bodily agony.
If life is school with a lesson for
each one, then Sister Curtin learned her
lesson through the course Of physical
suffering. That she accepted her lot
with superlative courage all must agree.
That she became rich of soul, having
learned that earth had no resting place
Tor her, and therefore heaven, the hope
Of the soul, became the more real to
her. we all believe. %
Through the heroic efforts of her
husband, who has long been known
md universally esteemed as one OF the
eading merchants OF this part of the
state, peer in his profession, above all
\ man whose trust in God and in the
life that was given to his keep
ng never faltered, every available re-
source in northern and southern climate,
n medical skill and in the leading SAN
tariums was placed at the disposal of
he patient, but all to no avail. Mrs.
Curtin came home at last sweetly con-
'cious OF all that had been done for her
md patiently resigned until death
should release the imprisoned soul to
he God who gave it.
Returning to her early life, Mrs.
y, liz, ,ro. roo.od -, tl,o ,s,rst favo~obIa |
environments, in community of most
excellent people, known as the first
antilles of the particular locality OF
Madrid Bend. She attended the local
chools and completed college course
n Saint Agnes Academy at Memphis.
As stated before, the graces OF accom-
,lshed and beautiful womanhood had
,een hers to offer upon the altar of
ife's devotion and to consecrate to the
owe of her Maker. This trust was kept
n imperishable faith and glorifed in
ulfillment.
Services were held at the Methodist
Jhurch Tuesday afternoon, the casket
n the altar with the body in sweet re-
,ose, and above and around it tribute
1 beautiful flowers. Rev. g. J. Evans,
be pastor, read from Psalms 90 and ,
rom I Cor, Is. abide With Me-"
song offering by Mrs. Thad Lee, then .
be minister's eulogy and the remains )
'ere conveyed to the City Cemetery for
urial.