Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-04-08
|. IN MENORIAM
MRS. JOHN M. RYAN,
Who died at LaGrande, Oregon,
March goth, 1921.


Byan, we want to extend the deepest
lbvo and sympathy in their great
Joss, but most of all to pay tribute
TO ono of the noblest little women
whom it has been our privilege to
meet and know No other time of
the year could mean so much to her
family az tho season through which
we have just passed and to which
her life bears so much OF q likeness
TO that of our Saviour,-the forty
days in which our Lord walked alone
through the Wilderness of Sorrow
and Suffering on through the streets
Of Jerusalem, through Gethsemane,
and all tho way to cavalry in order
that we might have Eternl life.
Some sixteen years ago she came
INTO tho life of her husband with
happiness and high hopes OF her
earthly pilgrimage by his side. Those
years have brought some OF the rich
est blessings of this world, and she
received them with a grateful heart,
knowing that always when plucking
roses from the tree of life, that she
In turn would find hidden few Of
he thorns, yet to her the roses were
so beautiful that the pricking Of the
horns meant only that she had
nlucked. the most beautiful flower
that 81 Nv on the tree. She piucked
| five beautiful roses from this garden
! Of life, two of which she handed
back to her Heavenly Father, know
| ne that they wero to bloom in His
arden, and three are left behind her
10 bloom in this earthly garden for a
| few more years to speak for her and
| 70 take up her unfinished tasks,--
and in just few short years of her
'ife she was wife, mrother, friend and
| laint to her as Wife and Mother
we want to pay her the tribute she
~, Justly earned.
Sadie Perkins Ryan was known
o all and leeply loved. A place has
been vacated that none other will
/ over be able to fill-that of Mother
Sand companion to her husband and
children. Always untiring in her eff
forts for their comfort and happi-
ness, and oftimes their minds will
ravert to her whose patience and
lovelinesa fotgave SO promptly all
srrors and theyswill wonder If death
has indeed ended oil and IL there is
o be no more meeting for them.
Remember your loved ones that
re left behind to grieve for Sadie,
Who was so human, If she could be
~ loving and forgtving, the Divine
Father will be equally more so and
Ills promise is that we shall all
meet again, nd this alone will keeI
gaur eyes turned towards the Gate
of Heaven where you expect to meet
her, and most of all the little child
~an that will remember her as JUS
MotheT."-.
God thought to give the sweetest
thing
J In His Almighty power
To Earth; and deeply pondering
What 1t should be, ono hour
> In fondest Joy, and love of hear
: Outweighed every other,
He moved the gates Of HeayeI
i apart,
. And gave to Earth a Mother!'
t'Mother left us at sunrise MarcI
: goth. 1921. crossing the Great Divid'
7 With fortitude that graeed non
= more fair she had travelled the path
! way OF lifo without fear, and wit
that samo grace she approached tn
crossing. never oneo doubling bu
9 what God knoweth and doeth al
q things will. Through the years o
= life she looked calmly into the fu
fnre and did mt falter, with a hero
ism born of her supreme faith /
Jesus of Nazareth she approached tn
" footstooI OF her Lord with conf
i dence in His great love and MercI
If always carrying away with her not
" of highest exuItation-for she knocl
n ed at the gates of Eternal Mornin
! and she had the promise of our Lore
: knock and it shall be opened unit
YOU and we do know that the on
ls we have all loved SO much did knoc
II end found the gate swinging Wic
ne for her entrance into the House M
st made with hands, but eternal in II
le Heavens. and there she Is waitir
Is for her family to join her.
II Shrouded in her robes immaculat
- asleep beneath a wilderness OF floV
~ era that fain would have kissed h
H. evelids to Weakening, we sent h
n back to her old home; there benea'
le, the pines. within sound of the yoic
he of her friends and family which n
.e. forty years had been to her Il
III sweetest music
I'VE paused and breathed
~ prayer above the sod
at And left her to her rest and God
,o1 Had she been spared until Ju
Is she would have reached her fortie
= year, and how DeautiIui a Ire TO
no who knew her in those few she
IA years. Each returning springtin
ses when the liiacs and snowballs he
or their carnival, we will recall I
passing of the sweetest character
have ever known. Mother!
r. have all known her. Not all OF
"a in the same person. but the sal
nu ~ wIory frames each separate face
~ ~ the aureole of ifs own Divinity. a
= y whether IL be my Mother or 20
.1e Mother crossing over into the I
- - discovered country. yet We bow q
Sei heads IN silent reverence and res
: out our hearts and hands TO the
tie children so deeply bereft.
en- As to Wife: The memory Of
GO companion left behind will ira
lleE hack many times over the haI
eeh years spent together and aIwi
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