It is again with a sad heart that we chronicle the death of a friend. In the person of Miss Katie Lockett, every person in Dickens had a true friend. To meet her was to be cheered with that congenial smile that radiated her life and a word of inspiration which none less pure could utter. She was ever cheerful and bright and considered life real and earnest. She loved her friends was true to them and in her last illness during the suffering that she endured she never lost her love for her friends and held on to the hope of life and restoration of health until the very last, but when told that death was inevitable, she held on to the brittle thread as it were, and said that death had no sting, and that she was willing and ready to go.Trusting in her Savior and the assurance of the resurrection, Miss Katie Vaughn Lockett departed this life at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. T.M. Lockett, at 12:25 o´clock p.m., Sunday January 24, 1909.
Sometimes the flower that we prize, as the beautiful snowdrop, droops and dies, but its delicate face has inspired us to hope and perfume our lives with thoughts of purity. The sunshine of love could not warm her life, nor the affection of friends and loved ones beguile her from drooping. Her breath went out like exhalation of a sweetly fragrant minion of the woodland and in her stead was left a holy and beautiful memory, a memory that will last and sanctify as long acquaintances are in existence.
On Monday last at 3 o´clock p.m., the casket containing the body was borne to the Baptist church where the funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. W.L. Robertson, assisted by her former pastor, Rev. J.V. Bilberry after which the procession was formed. The young ladies of the town, her associates in life, (Misses Myrtal Hustons, Pearle Garner, Leota Johnson, Pearl Stradley, Edyth Crego, Lillian Denton, Pearl Gunn and Grace Owen) as pallbearers, took charge of the body and followed by the mourning loved ones and a large procession of friends, conveyed it to the Dickens Cemetery where all that was mortal of Katie Lockett was consigned to the grave.
May God´s purest angel guard her slumbers, and may her friend remember that Katie is with Jesus and is ever beckoning for them to follow on.
©The Dickens Item, January 29, 1909
Submitted by Kay Laster
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