Birthdate from Harry Anthony Brunk, "David Heatwole and His Descendants," p. 137
First wife of DeWitt Good, married Sept. 25, 1900
GOOD - On August 8th, 1901, Sister Laura Esther Brunk Good, wife of Bro. DeWitt R. Good, M.D., closed a beautiful and noble life, at her new home near Dale Enterprise, Rockingham Co., Va., in the 24th year of her age. She was a daughter of Samuel and Susanna Brunk and a great-granddaughter of Bishop Peter Burkholder, who in his lifetime rendered such invaluable service to the church. Born and reared in a pious and cultured family, she received the training that so sweetened her life and endeared her to every one. None knew her but to love her. Not a year had elapsed since she stood in bridal robes, received the hearty congratulations and good wishes of a large number of friends, until she lay wrapped in the robes of death before a large concourse of people who had assembled to pay their last tributes of respect to one they so much loved.
Why one so young and useful, just in the very prime of life, should be called from our midst, is a question that presents itself. God alone knows. Eternity will reveal. Yet vainly do we grieve, "for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still."
But, if the "Great Gardener" sees a flower here upon earth, pure and lovely enough to transport in the paradise of God, to embellish His own grounds, we can but say through our tears, "His will, not ours, be done."
The funeral services were conducted from Weaver's church by Bish. L.J. Heatwole and Christian Good, from the words, "Her sun is gone down while it was yet day." Jer. 15:9. How true! for in the midst of life we are in death.
All that was mortal of Laura was laid to rest in Weaver's church cemetery, but all that made her kind and sympathetic, yes, all that made her lovely, has taken its flight to God who gave it, and we believe her soul is now basking in the sunshine of God's eternal favor. To the bereft husband, sorrowing parents and only remaining brother and sister, we feel to say, Oh, look up. "A little while," 'twill not be long, and the unquiet dream of life will be over, and the "morning without clouds shall dawn," for "He cometh!" and it is the voice of the "beloved," which will "turn the shadow of death" into the morning. The dead-the ransomed dead-shall "hear His voice and come forth:" those "asleep in Jesus," God is to bring with Him. Oh! what a glorious thought!
May God comfort and console your wounded and bleeding hearts, reward you for all your labors of love to her, and help us all so to live, that we may share a blessed reunion on the shores of everlasting bliss. COUSIN CLEMMIE
Herald of Truth, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 23, December 1, 1901
First wife of DeWitt Good, married Sept. 25, 1900
GOOD - On August 8th, 1901, Sister Laura Esther Brunk Good, wife of Bro. DeWitt R. Good, M.D., closed a beautiful and noble life, at her new home near Dale Enterprise, Rockingham Co., Va., in the 24th year of her age. She was a daughter of Samuel and Susanna Brunk and a great-granddaughter of Bishop Peter Burkholder, who in his lifetime rendered such invaluable service to the church. Born and reared in a pious and cultured family, she received the training that so sweetened her life and endeared her to every one. None knew her but to love her. Not a year had elapsed since she stood in bridal robes, received the hearty congratulations and good wishes of a large number of friends, until she lay wrapped in the robes of death before a large concourse of people who had assembled to pay their last tributes of respect to one they so much loved.
Why one so young and useful, just in the very prime of life, should be called from our midst, is a question that presents itself. God alone knows. Eternity will reveal. Yet vainly do we grieve, "for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still."
But, if the "Great Gardener" sees a flower here upon earth, pure and lovely enough to transport in the paradise of God, to embellish His own grounds, we can but say through our tears, "His will, not ours, be done."
The funeral services were conducted from Weaver's church by Bish. L.J. Heatwole and Christian Good, from the words, "Her sun is gone down while it was yet day." Jer. 15:9. How true! for in the midst of life we are in death.
All that was mortal of Laura was laid to rest in Weaver's church cemetery, but all that made her kind and sympathetic, yes, all that made her lovely, has taken its flight to God who gave it, and we believe her soul is now basking in the sunshine of God's eternal favor. To the bereft husband, sorrowing parents and only remaining brother and sister, we feel to say, Oh, look up. "A little while," 'twill not be long, and the unquiet dream of life will be over, and the "morning without clouds shall dawn," for "He cometh!" and it is the voice of the "beloved," which will "turn the shadow of death" into the morning. The dead-the ransomed dead-shall "hear His voice and come forth:" those "asleep in Jesus," God is to bring with Him. Oh! what a glorious thought!
May God comfort and console your wounded and bleeding hearts, reward you for all your labors of love to her, and help us all so to live, that we may share a blessed reunion on the shores of everlasting bliss. COUSIN CLEMMIE
Herald of Truth, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 23, December 1, 1901
Birthdate from Harry Anthony Brunk, "David Heatwole and His Descendants," p. 137
First wife of DeWitt Good, married Sept. 25, 1900
GOOD - On August 8th, 1901, Sister Laura Esther Brunk Good, wife of Bro. DeWitt R. Good, M.D., closed a beautiful and noble life, at her new home near Dale Enterprise, Rockingham Co., Va., in the 24th year of her age. She was a daughter of Samuel and Susanna Brunk and a great-granddaughter of Bishop Peter Burkholder, who in his lifetime rendered such invaluable service to the church. Born and reared in a pious and cultured family, she received the training that so sweetened her life and endeared her to every one. None knew her but to love her. Not a year had elapsed since she stood in bridal robes, received the hearty congratulations and good wishes of a large number of friends, until she lay wrapped in the robes of death before a large concourse of people who had assembled to pay their last tributes of respect to one they so much loved.
Why one so young and useful, just in the very prime of life, should be called from our midst, is a question that presents itself. God alone knows. Eternity will reveal. Yet vainly do we grieve, "for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still."
But, if the "Great Gardener" sees a flower here upon earth, pure and lovely enough to transport in the paradise of God, to embellish His own grounds, we can but say through our tears, "His will, not ours, be done."
The funeral services were conducted from Weaver's church by Bish. L.J. Heatwole and Christian Good, from the words, "Her sun is gone down while it was yet day." Jer. 15:9. How true! for in the midst of life we are in death.
All that was mortal of Laura was laid to rest in Weaver's church cemetery, but all that made her kind and sympathetic, yes, all that made her lovely, has taken its flight to God who gave it, and we believe her soul is now basking in the sunshine of God's eternal favor. To the bereft husband, sorrowing parents and only remaining brother and sister, we feel to say, Oh, look up. "A little while," 'twill not be long, and the unquiet dream of life will be over, and the "morning without clouds shall dawn," for "He cometh!" and it is the voice of the "beloved," which will "turn the shadow of death" into the morning. The dead-the ransomed dead-shall "hear His voice and come forth:" those "asleep in Jesus," God is to bring with Him. Oh! what a glorious thought!
May God comfort and console your wounded and bleeding hearts, reward you for all your labors of love to her, and help us all so to live, that we may share a blessed reunion on the shores of everlasting bliss. COUSIN CLEMMIE
Herald of Truth, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 23, December 1, 1901
First wife of DeWitt Good, married Sept. 25, 1900
GOOD - On August 8th, 1901, Sister Laura Esther Brunk Good, wife of Bro. DeWitt R. Good, M.D., closed a beautiful and noble life, at her new home near Dale Enterprise, Rockingham Co., Va., in the 24th year of her age. She was a daughter of Samuel and Susanna Brunk and a great-granddaughter of Bishop Peter Burkholder, who in his lifetime rendered such invaluable service to the church. Born and reared in a pious and cultured family, she received the training that so sweetened her life and endeared her to every one. None knew her but to love her. Not a year had elapsed since she stood in bridal robes, received the hearty congratulations and good wishes of a large number of friends, until she lay wrapped in the robes of death before a large concourse of people who had assembled to pay their last tributes of respect to one they so much loved.
Why one so young and useful, just in the very prime of life, should be called from our midst, is a question that presents itself. God alone knows. Eternity will reveal. Yet vainly do we grieve, "for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still."
But, if the "Great Gardener" sees a flower here upon earth, pure and lovely enough to transport in the paradise of God, to embellish His own grounds, we can but say through our tears, "His will, not ours, be done."
The funeral services were conducted from Weaver's church by Bish. L.J. Heatwole and Christian Good, from the words, "Her sun is gone down while it was yet day." Jer. 15:9. How true! for in the midst of life we are in death.
All that was mortal of Laura was laid to rest in Weaver's church cemetery, but all that made her kind and sympathetic, yes, all that made her lovely, has taken its flight to God who gave it, and we believe her soul is now basking in the sunshine of God's eternal favor. To the bereft husband, sorrowing parents and only remaining brother and sister, we feel to say, Oh, look up. "A little while," 'twill not be long, and the unquiet dream of life will be over, and the "morning without clouds shall dawn," for "He cometh!" and it is the voice of the "beloved," which will "turn the shadow of death" into the morning. The dead-the ransomed dead-shall "hear His voice and come forth:" those "asleep in Jesus," God is to bring with Him. Oh! what a glorious thought!
May God comfort and console your wounded and bleeding hearts, reward you for all your labors of love to her, and help us all so to live, that we may share a blessed reunion on the shores of everlasting bliss. COUSIN CLEMMIE
Herald of Truth, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 23, December 1, 1901
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