Muscogee-Troup County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hester, Rebecka Jane [Veal] (Mrs. R. B.) July 20, 1928
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"The Roanoke Leader"
Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, July 18, 1928

Walter Calhoun of Columbia, S.C. was called here last Friday by the serious 
illness of his grandmother, Mrs. R.B. Hester.

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, July 25, 1928

MRS. HESTER DIED JULY 20th

On the night of July 20th Mrs. R.B. Hester was called by the Great All Father 
from mortality to immortality. She died as she had lived, a devoted christian 
wife and mother.  To the broken hearts of her suffering family we would say, 
take to yourself the great controlling power of the christ that she 
loved.  "Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, from which none ever wake to weep." 
To the bereaved husband and children we would say, is it not better that she 
sleep in Paradise instead of languishing on a bed of pain?

In all the various relations of life that she filled as wife, mother, friend 
and neighbor, the even tenor of her noble life was far beyond reproach. 
Gentle, kind, modest, with silent devotion she practiced christian 
benevolence. She went when she was needed and ministered to the suffering. She 
loved her neighbors and saw that they knew her love by her kind, sympathetic 
deeds.

The many friends of this christian lady remembered her with an abundance of 
flowers. It was most appropriate that the close of this life should be 
accentuated with flowers.  As the beautiful book of her life is closed, 
remembrance of a thousand deeds of kindness that she did stand out like 
dazzling jewels on a lovely robe. Her best monument will be the kindness which 
accentuated all her earthly pilgrimage.

The funeral service was held at the First Baptist church of which she was a 
member, on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by her pastor Rev. W.E. Lockler who 
paid her a worthy tribute. Her favorite hymn, "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" was 
her requiem. Interment was in the city cemetery.  Mrs. Hester is survived by 
her husband Rev. R.B. Hester and three children, two of this city, Mrs. T.E. 
Calhoun and Mr. C.M. Hester and Mrs. Baxter Taylor of Columbus, Ga.    A 
friend.
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LOCAL News

Among those called to Roanoke by the death of Mrs. R.B. Hester are B.C. Taylor 
of Columbus; Mr. and Mrs. Milton Pace of Hogansville; J.H. Dean and family of 
West Point; Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. Elton TAYLOR, Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert Young, Misses Winnie, Tinie and Ruth Bassett of LaGrange.

Additional Comments:
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 
Name: Becky Jane Hester 
Death Date: Jul 1928  
Death County: Randolph  
Volume: 36  
Roll: 3  
Page #: 17996  
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CEDARWOOD CEMETERY
Township 21, Range 12, S 35
Main Street, Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama

Surveyed September 2000 by Marie M. Cain and Marilyn M. Girardi
Submitted by Marilyn M. Girardi  MMGir@aol.com

Section E
    
Hester, Rev. R. B.          Apr 28, 1853    Jan 23, 1938
Hester, Rebecka Jane Veal   May 30, 1854    Jul 20, 1928    (Mother)      w/o 
R. B. Hester
Calhoun, Walter Bingnon     Jan 14, 1893    Mar 11, 1974    Pvt US ARMY
Hester, Charles Monroe      Dec 20, 1874    Aug 26, 1949



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