---

PAVONIA -- Friday morning, April 28, Miss Minnie Hale, one of the most beautiful and most beloved characters that the community has ever known, passed away.  She had been ill since last January.  At first it was hoped the trouble would be nothing serious, but a few weeks ago the physicians pronounced the case to be one of tuberculosis of the throat and gave little hope of her recovery.  Since then her spirit gradually slipped from us until heaven gained at last the coveted jewel, a jewel that was far too precious for its earthly casket.  Rarely do we find in one so young such extreme piety, and Christ-likeness as was manifest in Miss Hale's life.  'Tis hard for us to see the providence that smiles behind so dark a cloud, yet we would not, if we could, call her back from that "mansion in the skies" which her spirit it seemed to be entering into even while she was saying good-bye to those she loved.  Her last words were not of earth.  She seemed to be calling back from the very gates of heaven.  The last sacred rites were performed at her home by her pastor, the Rev. F.I. Johnson, at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, whose theme was suggested by passages which she had marked in her "guide book".  A large concourse of friends followed the remains to their last resting place and sympathized with the grief stricken family in this, their sad bereavement.

---

<< Back to Obituary Index

<< Back to the Richland Co., Ohio Index