King, Eunice Irene Lighthall (1876-1937)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1937 Aug 11 p. 5

Birth date: 1876 Feb 26

text of obituary:

LOCAL

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— Death took Mrs. Benj. J. King, long-time resident of Hesston, out of her family circle3 last Saturday when she passed away at the Bethel Hospital after an illness of seven weeks. She is survived by her deeply bereaved husband and two sons. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning in the chapel of Hesston College at Hesston.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1937 Aug 18 p. 6

text of obituary:

Mrs. B. J. King

Eunice Irean [sic Irene] Lighthall King, daughter of George and Fannie Soule Lighthall, was born near Asheville, Mitchell county, Kansas, Feb. 26, 1879 [sic 1876].

At fifteen years of age she moved with her parents to Pawnee county, Kansas, where on May 27, 1894 she united in marriage with Benjamin J. King.

With the exception of several winters in California with her parents, and three years residence in Goshen, Ind., her life has been lived in Kansas, receiving her primary education in the schools of her native state, and later in life getting some high school and Bible work at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana.

In August, 1913, the family located at Hesston, Kansas, where she changed her membership from the Mennonite to the Methodist church, where she has been actively engaged in church, Sunday School and mission work.

After four months of great suffering, she quietly fell asleep at Bethel Hospital, Aug. 7, 1937 at 10:25 p.m. aged 61 years, 5 months and 13 days.

Left to mourn her departure are her husband, B. J. King, two sons, Roy J. King and family, Marian J. , Roy and Donald, of Haddenfield, New Jersey; Lloyd B. King and family, Lola, Eleanor, Jerry and Delbert of Hesston, and the following brothers and sisters: Clarence of New York; Lester, Nellie and Mrs. Fern Field of California, and a host of friends.

While living in Indiana she passed through a trying crisis when Paul Irvine, the youngest son, was struck by a swift moving interurban street car, receiving fatal injuries from which eh died 42 hours later without regaining consciousness, passing away on Nov. 7, 1907, aged 9 years.

In thinking over the present and future our mind was drawn to Tennyson's beautiful poem — "Crossing the Bar", with slight alterations.

Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me,
And may there be
No moaning at the bar,
When I put out to sea.
But such a tide
As moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound or foam,
When that which drew
From out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark,
For though from out our bourne of time and place
The flood may bear me far,
I now have seen my Pilot face to face
Since I have crossed the bar.

Funeral services were held at Hesston, Kansas, Tuesday, Aug. 10, conducted by Rev. Ebright of the Methodist church and Rev. Earl Buckwalter.