The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-24
The LinZy Graham Heflin Memorial

77dO be held in such sweet remem- brance; to be enshrined in the
 hearts of those who remain to do the work; onave and to hold forever and a day the affection and
 the love of comrades with whom one has work side by side, day in and day ! cut, is a sweet testimony to the char
 acter and the personality of any in- dividual, and to LinIy Graham Heflin this sweet tribute is paid in beautiful | form by the members of the Linly
 Graham Heflin unit, In their endeavor ! to memorialize her beautiful life and name.
 l No sweeter girl ever lived in this lcommunity than Linly Graham. Born | and bred in Birmingham, she was typi- | cal of all that is lovely in face and form and character
 | During her childhood days her gen tleness and tenderness revealed them selves in many beautiful ways, and ! after reaching young womanhood's es- | tate, these qualities so essential to the perfect unfolding of lovely maturity, | developed, rounded themselves about out and made the transformatin from girlhood to young womanhood one of passing sweet remembrance. 1 Later during her married life the same sweetness and gentleness which ! had characterized her childhood and 1 girlhood days was dominant and none ever knew sweet Linly Heflin who did
 not love her.
 | None ever pledged friendship to Linly Heflin who ever had occasion to re- J tract it; and as readily as she made
 friends, just as readily did she give her 1 friendship, sincerely genuinely. honestly.
 Too few of us realize the value of | friendship we go through life; many disregard the idea that 1t is just as necessary to be friend, as to have one but she understood all these finer l qualities and drew about her circle of loyal friends, always ready and will- l ing to follow her in any effort whether
 social, philanthropic or patriotic. | During the war, wishing to do her share in the great world struggle, when men were perlshing all about us and 1 women's hearts were bleeding and the red hand of grimvisaged war struck ruthlessly at youth and age alike, Lin ly Hef1ip, found her metier-her way and thisttook the form of the organi- | zation which she effected, known as the Linly Graham Heflin unit of the 1 Red Cross.
 This was the second unit to be formed in the tremendous link of | units which contributed such splendid work to the many war neaSuIes, anu a significant fact to be recorded con-
 corning the Linly Graham Heflin unit,
 which shows very plainly the tremen- dous personality of the sweet woman ] whose name it honors, Is that every l person connected with the unit is a personal friend of Linly Graham lief lin's.
 It is said that she asked each indi- vidual chosen from her circle of friends to Join the unit and since her death the fifty active members who compose the unit and the goodly number of as- sociate members, are for the most part her warm personal friends.
 Such a beautiful tribute to her life and love and work.
 Such sweet reward of endeavor ] and effort.
 After finishing up the war work which had been set apart for the binly Graham Heflin unit to accomplish--to be exact. a little more than year ago, the unit with Mrs. Mercer Barnett as president began to formulate it's plans
 for charity.
 Mrs Barnett. splendidly unselfish in
 lending her assistance to any worth while venture, gladly took up the work
 with the unit and the first plans after
 the reorganization was effected took
 the form of a practical endeavor
 One of the finest things that has
 ever been accomplished by the Linly
 Graham Heflin unit was the raising of