Obituary by Mary M. Cody

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 5, 1882

Obituary.

By Mary M. Cody

YOAKUM.—Jennie Yoakum, wife of John E. Yoakum, died Dec. 24, 1881, aged 28 years, after a short illness of three days, in which she suffered greatly. She leaves a husband, and one child, too young to realize its loss, a father, mother, and three sisters. She died trusting in the Lord, which is a great consolation to those who are left to mourn the loss of one who had endeared herself to all with whom she associated by a pure and exemplary Christian life. She has been a member of the S. D. A. Church for nearly four years, in which time she has ever shown an ardent zeal to do the work of the Master, ever being ready to do her duty in whatever form it came, and as a church we deeply feel the loss of Sister Yoakum. Words fail to describe the anguish that fills the heart of her stricken husband; and though life's path seems dark and gloomy, and the clouds of affliction seem to envelope him like the dull mist of a winter day, yet the memory of her who has gone will be as a beckoning hand to lead him and those who loved her most and best, to a higher life in Christ; and the thought of the bright hereafter, when they shall be reunited, will cheer them through the hours of gloom and sadness.

Soon the Master will be coming, She has only gone before; Then you'll meet the loved and lost one Over on the golden shore. Meet her where life's tree is blooming, Where all tears are wiped away, Where no farewells for the dying, Ever mar Heaven's cloudless day. Where the angels' harps are tuning, And the loud hosannah's ring Death, oh death, where now thy victory? Grave, oh grave, where now thy sting?

Funeral services were conducted by Bro. W. G. Buckner. MARY M. CODY.