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Submitted: 7/26/22 • Approved: 7/26/22 • Last Updated: 7/29/22 • R527746-G527744-S3
William A. Odell
March 21, 1857-June 16, 1930
Alice M. Light Odell
January 15, 1857-October 18, 1910
His Wife
Tho lost to sight, to memory dear
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary Alice Light Odell
As the month of October was passing away, a life was drifting to a close, and October 18 came, bringing with it the angel of death and the gentle spirit of Mrs. William O'Dell was wafted home.
Mrs. O'Dell was born in the state of Georgia, Dec. 15, 1857. She was married to William Odell, April 1, 1879. She professed a hope in Christ when she was eleven years of age. She was the mother of two sons, Hubert and Charlie, and leaves sorrowing husband and children and a host of friends to mourn her untimely demise.
Loving hands did all they could to keep her with us, but God's will, not ours be done, and some sweet day, we know not when, we will understand. Our loss is her gain. There is a consolation vouchsafed us in the sweet realization of the fact, that our loved one is in Heaven. She has heard the words from the Father's lips, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of thy Lord." It is some come comfort to us all to know that it will not be long until we will all cross the dark river. The time is not far distant until we will all deposit in the same crement our sorrows and suffering bodies, and ascend in holy rapture and meet our blessed Savior, and join our loved ones whom we have loved and lost, and whom we still love and will never lose again. We will join them on the "Bright Celestial Shore," on the resurrection morn. There will be no hour of parting, no tears and sad good-byes.
Her life was an exemplary one, her faith never failing, her patience enduring in the end. Her christian light growing brighter and brighter until lost in the full blaze of the rising sun in the glorious Beyond, and Heaven seems to us more near since there are loving hands beckoning us to come. God grant that your life and mine, reader, may be like hers, so that our death may be as glorious, for she fell asleep in Jesus, and God grant that the rays of that life may be sweet to those who knew and loved her and help them on their way. May the good shepherd show us how to go o'er those rugged wilds here below how to live and love in peace, all doubts and sorrows cease. Though expected to go she will be sadly missed, and her place can never be filled by another. With the passing of this precious soul the world has lost some of its beauty and sweetness to us, but heaven seeems [sic] nearer.
Earth has lost its look of gladness,
Heaven seems to us more bright,
Since the spirit of our dear one
Took its happy homeward flight.
And we long to cross that river-
Long to rest upon that shore,
There to see and know and love them
And be with the Savior evermore.
A Friend
(Published in The Hereford Brand, Vol. 10, No. 57, Hereford, Texas, October 21, 1910, Page 1)
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In Memory of Mrs. Wm. O'Dell
Away! Away! to the sun bright clime,
To fairer worlds on high,
To strike thy harp in strains sublime
Where sons ethereal never die.
Earth's burning chasms were naught to thee,
They could not bind thee here,
Thy angel spirit now is free,
And thou art happy there.
Kindred and friends will weep for thee,
'Tis nature thus to mourn,
Tears shed like raindrops sas and free
To hallow thy dear urn.
Husband and sons weep no more,
Though your hearts are riven,
The grave contains the casket here,
Your wife and mother has gone to Heaven.
Now she is happy - happier far,
Than we who mourn her dead,
In the bright blissful regions where
No farewell tear is shed.
We'll meet her in that happy land,
On the celestial shore,
Where we with the angel band,
Will meet to part no more.
A Friend.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, Vol. 10, No. 57, Hereford, Texas, October 21, 1910, Page 2)
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Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
Name: Alice Light
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 1 Apr 1879
Marriage Place: Hall, Georgia, USA
Spouse:
Wm A Odell
Spouse Gender: Male
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