The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-05-09
Mrs. Jas. r. Brumby, Jr.

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Mrs. Marianne Gendron Brumby,
81 years old, died on Monday, May 5,
at Nolan's Sanatorium.
The funeral services were held at
4:30 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon
at St. James Episcopal church, the
Rev. R. R. Claiborne officiating. The
hymns LEAD Kindly Light" "Asleep
in Jesus" and "For All Thy Saints"
were beautifully sung by the Episco-
pal choir, assisted by Mrs. Ralph
Northcutt, Mrs. E. P. Dobbs, and
Mrs. D. C. Cole.
The interment was in the Episcopal
cemetery, the ball-bearers being
Messrs. Otis Brumby, George H. Ses-
sions, Ralph Northcutt, Henry Cohen,
George Welsh and Welborn Reynolds.
Besides the hundreds of friends at
the services, the City Councilmen
and Police force attended in a body.
All stores and public buildings were
closed for the hour, as mark of SYM
pathy and respect.
Mrs. Brumby is survived by her
husband, James R. Brumby, Jr., two
little girls, Marianne and an infant,
her mother, Mrs. Edgar Nichols, two
sisters, Misses Sabine and Sue Nichols
two brothers, Ed and George Nichols,
and other relatives.
St. James has been the scene of
many sad funerals, but this was per-
haps the saddest ever held there. The
Church was decked by loving friends
as though for a bridal. The chancel
was carpeted with flowers, and masses
of beautiful flowers were used every
where. The snow-white casket was
covered with drapery of delicate
maiden-hair fern and white roses.
Among the many handsome designs
sent by the City and by various bust
ness firms, were quantities of flowers
brought from their own gardens by
numbers of sorrowing friends.
On Saturday our town was congrat-
ulating Mayor Brumby on the new
little daughter who had come to bless
his home; on Monday afternoon the
whole town was shocked and grieved
beyond expression by the sudden
death of his lovely young wife. Peo-
pie of every denomination, and from
the highest and lowest walks of life,
mourn as one the untimely death of
this young woman. Beloved and ad-
mired by all she was exceptionally
gentle, modest and transformations
living as sweetly, serenely and beau
tifuly as a flower and like a flower
broken from its stem she died quickly
and peacefully at the very zenith of
her happiness, mistress of handsome
new home, with an adoring husband
and two lovely little daughters Gin
the twinkling Of an eye she was cut
off,"
AS Mr.. Claiborne said in the i'm
pressive talk he made during the
funeral services, at could be said of
Annie Brumby as it was said of
Enoch in the Bible, she walked with
God and was not, for God took her"
The funeral services were preceded
by the administration of the Holy
Communion to the members of the
family, at $3.50; and the baptism of
the infant daughter, so soon mother
less, who was christened Sabine Ais
ton.
Those present felt that the dead
are not gone from US, but are still
with US in spirit.
How death does love shining
mark! God looked down into this
garden of flowers, and saw fit to take
to Himself one of the sweetest and
most beautiful of all.
There is a message for all in the
passing of Mrs. Brumby. The super
fetal things of the world were of no
Importance to her beside the essen
tial the spiritual things of life.
She filled every relation in life
Loyalty, faithfully, lovingly. AS
daughter, as wife, as mother, she was
as near perfect as human being
could be. In the Church she was
ever ready to do more than her share.
In the Sunday School and in the
Church Societies she was power for
good, and her noble influence will
be sorely missed.
Only last Sunday she was teaching
her little daughter this verse, for
Sunday School which no one could
say more earnestly, more truly than
"Annie" Brumby. 81 have fought a
good fight; have finished my course
l have kept the faith"