The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1921-10-07
OLIVE B. GRANGER
By Rev. A. v. Bryan

Milliken) was born in Oakdale
Nebraska March 26th 1889. ant
died in Rapid City, S. d., Septem
ber 29th. 1921.
Naturally of a retiring disposit
ion, she did not go out very much
but gave herself unstintedly tt
the nephews and nieces whom she
loved with a motherly affection
Gifted with musical tastes which
she had cultivated for many years
she assisted greatly in the serv
ices of the church as she envokeC
beautiful harmonies from the or
gan, sitting at the key board with
rapture on her face. A husband
and baby girl are left to mourn
her loss. Her natural endow
ments, handicapped somewhat, car
now be cultivated where she is
reticence gives place to fulle'
freedom; the disharmonies of ear
tn are replaced by heavenly chor
ds beyond the veil.
She told me often she wanted
no eulogies, no encomiums, no un
due praise showered on her afte'
her death. Paul says, "Rende
therefore to all their dues: tribut
to whom tribute is due; custom t.
whom custom; fear to whom fear
honor to whom honor" While sh'
would naturally shrink in sci
abasement yet her talents an'
worth should receive recognition
all this in truthfulness to her
with no idea Of hattery, no idea Of
laudation.
Her devotion to her husband is
evinced by the fact that she chose
as her burial place spot on the
ranch where she had gone to make
her new life. This is but another
evidence of her timid, retiring
nature-her shrinking from publ;
city that she should thus want
her last resting place to be in thai
quite spot. Now with timidity al
gone, in the clearer atmosphere Of
the new world, we may well imag
inc the possibilities of her develoI
ment; now heavenly harmonies
now the undimmed eye; now the
fineness of that nature unlimited
and unhapered. AS the rose car
not mature out of doors in the late
fall, but brought into the house
grows and natures to it's fullest
so the reserve broken, the timid-
ity gone, the sensitiveness which
somewhat hindered her full grow
tn here mean in that more salub
rious cline, greater possibilities
The natural talents here seen by
those who knew her will we'll fit
her for that place and work Goo
had in view for her when in her
creation He endowed her as He
did. Under a care more tender
under watchfulness more close
in the more balmy, kindlier atmos
phere, there will be the gradua
unfolding when she will be seer
at her best, see face to face and
know even as she is known. AT
our very best we criticize and mis-
Judge and these factors hinder
growth in others. But we who
knew her could see so many lat
ent possibilities, and now God has
taken her put her in specia
school, surrounds her with infinite
care, inparts to her His specia
love, under which, casting aside
all reserve, her gracec and talent:
will greatly enchance those with
whom she is now associated. Oul
loss her gain: our sorrows her JOY:
our ignorance her knowledge
Tribute to whom tribute is due
enjoins Paul, and this injunction
calls forth this weak obituary
this feeble tribute to her worth
that those who may never have
met her, may glimpse somewhat
of her loss to her husband and tt
others in the community where
she had so long resided.