The Carbon County news., 1931-07-09
Mary E. Hetland
1869-l931
BY E. p. ConwelI

! y =,
est daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Young of that city. At an early
age she came to the United State.
and on January 3, 1910, was mar.
ried to O. A. Hetland of Joliet, anl
has lived in that community evel
since. At the time of their mar.
riage Mr.. Hetland was a widow Ell
with six little boys whom she un-
dertook to raise to maturity as q
real mother. That she was sue
eessful goes without saying. Be-
ing a woman of lovable disposi-
ton she Immediately gained theil
love and respect which she held to
the very end. Mrs. Hetland was
a highly educated and refined wo-
man of a charitable and lovable
disposition. Her life was indeed
exemplary; she left the world bet
ter by reason of having lived in it.
On July 1, seeming somewhat
indisposed, she was taken to a Bill
ings hospital where she steadily
grew worse. Though she had the
best of care and medical attention
she died ON July 5. Funeral SER
vices were held from her home
and she was tenderly laid to rest
in the Rockvale cemetery, July 7.
Services at the home were conduc-
ted by Reverend J. R. Bordner,
who preached from the text, "the
Master has come, He is calling
you.' The services at the grave
were gracefully and beautifully
conducted by the ladies of the
Eastern Star, of whom she was
member. The esteem in which she
was held was attested in some
measure by the multitude of sor-
rowing friends from far and near
who attended her funeral, and the
wealth of wonderful floral offer
ings, only small part of which
could find room on her beautiful
easket.
Her friends and neighbors will
remember her for her kindly dis
position, her neighborly qualities,
hel charity to those in need, her
disposition to be helpful to others
in the hour of their sorrow or adj
versity and they will not forget
that when the final summons came
to Mrs. o. A. Hetland the spirit
of a good woman found rest. Her
devoted and sorrowing husband
will remember her as true, faith
ful and loving wife whose early
death he will mourn through all
the remaining years of life. Her
sons, for such they are pround to
call themselves, will tenderly re-
member her as a kind and gentle
whose interest in them and
their welfare was unwavering and
as constant as the light of stars.
They will cherish her memory
through the years to come as one
whose kindness and whose good
ness and whose Christian example
must ever be their priceless heri-
tage.
In the beautiful Rockvale ceme-
terry they dug a grave for her.
There in the community she loved
with an utterly selfless purity of |
love she will rest in angel guard
ed sleep until the day break. Death |
Is but transition after all. Before
It power and fame and youth and !
beauty lapse into corruption and |!
The spirit unclaimed from it's fet-
5ers of flesh flies whittier all sense |
fails to discern and faith alone
,an follow.
But after all it is deeds of life
hat really count and of Mrs. O.
A. Hetland it may we'll be said
hat her husband, her family, her
1eighbors and her friends found
n her a goodness and worthi-
1ess the memory of which is
priceless benediction. They look
9ack into the open book of her
fruitful life and find an illumina-
ed scroll. Every paragraph re-
'ords some worthy service, every
page finds her giving of herself
o her family and to the commun-
ty which she adorned, every chap
er points to the service and not
% the reward as the relentless
impulse and the objective of her
rood life. But here at last is the
lower of all rewards; the common
owe which puts her like meteor
n the heavens of tender memory
f old neighbors, old friends. They
hall not forget. 1t is the SUPREME
equiem.
Peace to her ashes, eternal rest
0 her soul. May the SHOWS of
vinter fall lightly and the flowers
t sumner bloom sweetly DER the
rave where she sleeps.
Monarch's Pepapra