Name: Mrs Sara Pirkle
[Mrs Cora P Durrett Pirkle] 
Birth Date: abt 1865
Birth Place: Alabama
Death Date: 1 Sep 1915
Death Place: Cleburne, Alabama
Cemetery Name: Losscreek Cemetery
Death Age: 50
Occupation: Housewife
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Gender: Female
FHL Film Number: 1894116

The Cleburne Newspaper Issue September 16, 1915

OBITUARY OF MRS. CORA PENNY PIRKLE

I am before the Cleburne News family again with another sad message. Our much
beloved sister and friend, Mrs. Cora Penny Pirkle is gone, but her going, like
the setting sun, has colored the sky with a flame of golden glory. Mrs. Cora
Penny Pirkle, nee Durrett, was born April 6, 1865; was married to Mr. G.M.
Pirkle on December 31, 1885; joined the Baptist church in 1908 and was called
to our father's home Sept 1, 1915 at the age of 50 years, 5 months and 24
days. Of her family of eleven children, one preceded her to the home beyond.
She has left behind as a monument to her love, purity and faithfulness as a
wife, a loving husband, and as evidence of her motherly influence and
qualifications, she is survived by her sons, Profs. Willis V., Henry and Burl
Pirkle, and her daughters, Mrs. J.J. Colley and Miss Leola Pirkle, who is an
efficient teacher. These splendid sons and daughters speak in no uncertain
tone of the capability, love and faithfulness of the christian wife and
mother. For by their traits we shall know them. And the gentle and
christian like influence of sister Pirkle's life reached from her home to the
church of which she was a member and spread over the entire community, and her
heart's sympathy unfolded to the entire community's entire need. Her life was
beautiful whether in service or suffering and in her death she was crowned
with grace and glory. She was true to the core of her being, as sincere as
the sunlight.

But our sorrow is very much mitigated by the fact that our loss is her gain.
The writer joins the host of others in extending our most sincere sympathy to
the much bereaved husband, children and relatives. And let us strive to
imitate her consecrated and beautiful life until our life's task is done, then
we shall meet her at the gate of the king's city. G.L. Hicks

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