The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-20
NEWS EVENTS AND FEATuRES FOR WOMEN READERS
Death of Mrs. Southall
 Great Loss to Community

In the passing of Mrs Jennie Harris southall the Louie Compton Seminary realizes an almost irreparable loss. Mrs. Southall came to the seminary 21 years ago and has been an honored official member of the faculty ever since.
 She was reared and educated in the cultured atmosphere of Columbia, Tenn, and was married in that city to MT. Patrick Southall, promising young lawyer. The future of the happy pair seemed assured, and as time went on two lovely little girls came to glad. den their home; but when they had been married but few years Mir. Southall died, leaving his young wife and little children to face the world alone. Then it was that this brave young mother came to the seminary with her daughters and began the mo- ble work which she was so admira bly fitted by birt hand education. Here she remained until they were both graduated after which Miss Sarah con- tinued her studies at Vanderbilt Uni versity where she was graduated, and she now holds a responsible posi- tion at the head of the social service swork for women with the Internation- al Harvester Company of Chicago Miss Pattie continued the study of music at the Cincinnati Conservatory and be- came such brilliant pianist that she was sent overseas as an entertainer by the Federation of Womens Clubs of Alabama.
 During her long residence at the seminary she and Miss Hattie Morton, principal of the school. became the warmest friends--a friendship thai ripened into sisterly affection-and Miss Morton made the school such a sweet home for Mrs Southall that she was never happy away from it for long
 Mrs. Southall was no ordinary wom- an. From the day she entered it the school felt the impress of her strong personality.
 She was beautiful in form and face until the day of her death; and be- cause of her beauty, her strong sense Of life. and of the realities of life, be- cause of her keen munitions and menta' alertness she had charm not easily described. but her personal beauty was enhanced a thousand fold by the beauty of her life and character. Dur ing her 21 years in the institution. hundreds of girls came under her in- fluence and went away better and stronger for lifes duties by the ex- ample of her dauntless courage and Christian piety. She was woman of broad and liberal views and on the most intimate terms with members of other denominations and held by them in the highest esteem, but she was a true Methodist. and hers was an n- tellgent loyalty.
 Always a great reader, gathering stores of knowledge everywhere. she was well informed also upon all tho questions of the day in the religious world. It was tonic to our faith, he, earnest and unanswerable logic of the heart as she spoke of her Bible and her unfaltering devotion to it's teach ings.
 marked feature of her life war candor without shade of that blunt ness that gives offense. It was but an expression of her genuineness that shone through her life and grew more conspicuous as the years went by While in a way it seems so hard, aft CT the mother had so gently and care fully nurtured her little girls until they were blossoming into faultIess Womannood, that she should be taken, yet in our better, higher moments we know that to her the going was only gain.
 That we have her no longer ought tc be the only grief. To die thus gently and beautifully with all her loving Kindness. fresh as a young womans her enjoyment of life not wearied out all our love for her as warm as ever-- we ought not wish it otherwise
 But for us to know that kind. loving friend is at the seminary with us no longer is a sweetness in our lives that we can i'll aqfford to spare.