Bessie Blanche Funkhouser Obiturary

Death:  Mrs. Bessie Blanche Funkhouser Everett, age 58, passed away at her home in Fayette Saturday, November 27, 1948, following a week illness. She was born March 10, 1890 the daughter of Reed and Rachel Frances Turpin Funkhouser.  She was a native of Hendricks county but lived in Fayette for 55 years.  She married William Sanford Everett, on June 9, 1907 in Fayette.  She belonged to the Mount Tabor Baptist Church and the Perry Township Homemaker Club. Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Mount Tabor chruch and burial made in the church cemetery.  Surviving with her husband are three daughters, Mrs. Helen Bymaster, Mrs. Fern Armstrong, and Mrs. Doris Hopkins all of Lebanon rural route; a sister, Bernice Tackett, Lebanon and two brothers, Paul and Gideon Funkhouser, both of Brownsburg; one grandson, William E. Armstrong, and two granddaughters, Nina S. and Rebecca L. Armstrong, several nieces and nephews, as well as a host of other relatives and friends.  She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters and a brother.  To her memory, compiled by a son-in-law entitled:
A WONDERFUL MOTHER
Oh! Mother your're gone; Yes gone away,
And left us with naught, but memories today;
A dear one has passed to her heavenly goal,
We shall n'er forget; Dear mother of thee,
Kind and gentle, with a heart full of gen-er-osity,
Even in illness, till life ebbed slow,
You suffered within so no one could know.
We are sure our Lord had called thee to rest.
And today thour'rt happy, with the Heavenly blest.
In that glorious land and city of gold
Safe with the Shepherd, and within his fold.
So let not a tear be shed this day,
As we struggle on in our earthly way,
For thou are safe in that haven of rest,
Thy heavenly heart hoping; We to pas the test. 

Death:  One of the larges congregations ever assembled at Mt. Tabor Church, gathered for the funeral services.  Services were conducted by Elders Arthur Harmon of Lafayette, Indiana and W.E. Essex

Death: Copied from the Regular Baptist Messenger, dated January 1949

Source Rebecca L. Armstrong Merritt