Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-04-06
And Home Came Ted
HAZEL ELLER DIES
TUESDAY MORNING.
Was Loved by Her SchoOlmates
Teachers Speak Of Her
In Highest Regard.

Inc years between december
25th, 1906 when she was born
at Asotin, Washington, and
April 3rd, 1928, when she pas
sed on at Cottonwood, Idaho,
comprise the entire time herit-
age of Hazel Eller. Perhaps God
may be able to compute the
spiritual heritage she has left.
We have never seen any other
16 years, 3 months and 8 days
erect so fine a moral monument.
What looks like a night without
a star, has fallen. Hazel, save
in spirit, and retrospect, and
memory, and love, can brighten
our lives no longer. In anguish
of soul we give her up, to the
company of the good and true
and worthy Of the ages past, and
for her going we re-resolve that
where she has gone we must not,
dare not, can not, will not, fail to
follow. The worth, and faith,
and love and cheer, and kindness
and fun, and sympathy and
wholesomeness, for which we
will always remember our dar-
ling gone, are the high aims to
which her angel spirit now beck
ons us. Hazel, a daily ambassa-
dor of the truest nobility, her
life the sum of all great sermons
written in daily acts and deeds,
can we be worthy of the call she
has left us? That life, however
short, which at it's close takes
back to God a soul as pure and
white as when He gave it, is al
ready radiant with Immortality.
To be born good, to be happy and
glad to stay good, and from
year to year to be at
tended by a halo of goodness
which every one else could feel,
yet never even suspect it herself,
in short to be actually the center
of a few square yards of moving
Heaven, this was our Hazers
glory, and this is why we are not
ashamed of the tears that flow
unbidden and uncontrolled while
we write. Until Tuesday, April
3rd, there have been but three
voices, hushed for years in the
last long silence, which have vet
called us daily, to be true to the
things they knew, and we know
to be eternally first. They
were our Mothers's, our wife's
Mothers and one, only one, of
our earliest Professors. Now
there are four, and Hazeps, oul
pupil over period of but Z
months, is the fourth. On the
sweetness of her disposition, the
unselfishness of her nature, the
quiet modesty of her goodness
and the purity of her soul, sixty.
five of her high school compani-
ons, all of her teachers, anC
every man, woman and child il
Cottonwood or elsewhere wht
ever met her, all are attestins
the truth of this appraisal. Sht
has only passed on. She cOul(
not longer he away from Heav
en-. There is no death or los.
of such as Hazel. Some wher'
ahead the light will break. Some
day we'll understand. "a Ions
or short goodbye, sweet Hazel
we'll meet you in the morning
And we'll forget you, or ceas'
to love you, or weary of listen
ing to you, never, never, never.
Seeking expression of Cotton
woods grief,
George F. Mol.
Hazel Eller, 16-year oil
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. B. c
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. B. c
her home in Cottonwood, afte
an illness of ten days of diabetes
She is survived by her parents
a sister, Gladys and a brother
, Dallas.
Funeral services were hel
Thursday morning from the FL
, ler home at II o'clock. tn
, pupils of the high school O
which she was a member al
tending in a body. Mrs. C. {
Call of Grangeville. officiating
[ Many beautiful floral piece
were banked around the caske
During the services two voc;
] selections were rendered by Mr.
/ T. c. Keith accompanied b
Mrs. D. Hilbert.
The pail bearers, high scho'
. friends of Hazels, were: Fran
2 Jenny, John Jenny, Augu:
: Hoene, Edwin Buettner, Ea
Mcdonald and Raymond MIN