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From: Dave Friedline <>
Subject: Katie Ellen CABLE obit
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 08:51:48 -0400

Cable.-Katie Ellen, daughter of Bro. Amos and Sister Lydia Cable of the Thomas congregation near Johnstown, Pa., was born Feb. 2, 1904; died April 19, 1916; aged 12 y. 2 m. 17 d. She was a sufferer for about six weeks, from leakage of the heart. Yet with all her sufferings she was a great example of patience. On Jan. 30, 1916, she gave her heart to God and she was baptized and received into the Mennonite Church. The evening before she died she called for one of her ministers, with a few others, with a desire to have the reading of the Word and prayer and song. A few moments later she waved her hands to parents, brother and sisters, and others, bidding them goodbye. Again calling her minister to her bedside she also remembered her brother who is not yet a child of God. Her last words to her brother were, "I want you to promise me that you will join the church." How hard it is to give up such an one, but how glorious when we think of the words of the poet:



"How blest the righteous when he dies,

When sinks the weary load to rest."



She leaves to mourn her departure, father, mother, 5 brothers, 3 sisters, grandparents, and a host of friends. Services conducted in the home by Bros. S.G. Shetler and L.A. Blough. Burial April 21 in the Thomas Cemetery.



Source: Mary Jane Rhoads Obituary Collection (clipped obits)
Newspaper source unclear

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