HATTIE SPILLMAN
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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FROM THE WEEKLY SOLIPHONE
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RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT OF ECLIPSE REBEKAH LODGE
NO. 315
ON DEC. 12 , 1914 , GOD IN HIS WISDOM REMOVED FROM OUR BELOVED ORDER SISTER HATTIE SPILLMAN , AGE 45 YEARS . DEATH CAME AFTER A LONG AND PATIENT ILLNESS OF BRONCHIAL AFFECTION .
SISTER SPILLMAN WAS A VALUBLE MEMBER , SHE BEING ONE OF OUR WORTHY PAST GRANDS. SHE WAS ALWAYS READY WITH HEART AND HANDS TO BRIGHTEN THE LIVES OF THOSE SHE CAME IN CONTACT WITH. SHE WAS OF A LOVEABLE DISPOSITION , A TIRELESS CHRISTIAN , WAS LOYAL TO HER CHURCH , SHE BEING A MEMBER OF MAINSHORE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. SHE LEAVES A HUSBAND , ( H . M. SPILLMAN ) THREE SONS AND ON DAUGHTER ( MRS. LEE MILLER ) , ALSO A MOTHER , AND THREE SISTERS AND A HOST OF FRIENDS TO MOURN THEIR LOSS.
BE IT RESOLVED , THAT WE , THE MEMBERS OF THIS LODGE , TO WHICH SHE BELONGED , EXTEND TO THE BEREAVED FAMILY OUR SINCERE LOVE AND SYMPATHY , AND SAY TO THEM , WEEP NOT AS THOSE THAT HAVE NO HOPE , BUT LOOK UP TO OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN , WHO DOETH ALL THINGS WELL TO THOSE WHO LOVE AND SERVE HIM.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT A COPY OF THESE RESOLUTIONS BE SPREAD ON THE MINUTED , A COPY BE SENT TO THE BEREAVED FAMILY AND ALSO A COPY SENT TO THE SOLIPHONE FOR PUBLICATION.
MRS. VINA BRIDGES
MRS. CALLIE LEWIS
MRS. LEANA DAY
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