The obituary below was copied almost verbatim from
a 1923 newspaper clipping, and saved by Mabel Jackson Wackler,
sister of Bessie.
Mrs. Bessie Jackson Zimmerman is Called.
After an illness of several months, Bessie Jackson, wife of Judson Zimmerman, answered the last summons and passed to the "home from which no traveler ere returns" at 12:30 p.m. Friday, June 29 at her home east of Pleasant Hill. Thus ended her brave determined struggle, waged unselfishly in the interests of her husband and three little ones. Bessie was the daughter of former County Commissioner and Mrs. Charles H. Jackson and her happy girlhood days were spent on the farm home on the traction line just south of Covington and here with her several brothers and sisters, she partook largely of the joys, privileges and duties of prosperous farm life. Her early calling--she was about 30 years old--greatly saddens her many friends who sympathize deeply with her bereft friends. Funeral services were conducted on Sunday afternoon at the Church of the Brethren, Pleasant Hill, by the pastor Rev. John A. Robinson, assisted by Rev. J. M. Pittenger. Burial in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
Second Obituary of Bessie Zimmerman
It was on August 17, 1892 on the old home place at Sugar Grove near Pleasant Hill, Ohio that Bessie Viola, fourth child of Charles H. and Lydia Jackson first saw the light of day in a great new world. Here she lived in the joys of childhood and roamed amid the bounties of nature until childhood slipped away and young womanhood had come to take its place. It was in this period of her that she found the mate for her life's pilgrimage in the person of Judson Zimmerman to whom she was united in marriage on February 11, 1914. To this union was born three boys, Robert age eight, Duane, five and little Jack, past one year. To her, home was the dearest spot on earth and it was there with her little family that she was most content and satisfied to dwell. She manifested an unusual degree of pluck and determination in her life activities, with a great hope of recovery, but alas, in vain. Disease had fastened itself upon her which the best of human skill could not shake loose. She suffered much yet never complained. She accepted her lot as to it had been designated by the hand of the Creator and felt she could only say, "Thy will be done." Accordingly on June 29, 1923 her spirit took its flight to yonder world from whence none ever returns. Aged 30 years, 10 months and 12 days. At the age of thirteen Bessie felt the call of God thru his Holy Spirit to the life of service in the kingdom of the Master and united with the Church of the Brethren. She was an active member of the Busy Bee Sunday School Class and the first of its members to be called by death since its organization, four years ago. She was a most loyal supporter to the Aid Society ever ready to render assistance in a material way. Besides her husband and three small boys, she leaves a father and mother, three brothers, Andrew and Wilford of near Pleasant Hill, and William of Troy, three sisters, Mrs. Mabel Wackler of near Pleasant Hill and Mrs. Bertha Thompson of near Piqua, and Martha at home. Her eldest brother, Samual having preceded her in death. While these feel her loss most keenly, a host of other relatives and friends will mourn her departure. "Yes she is absent! She who was to me the light and music of my happy home. It was her smile that made this house so gay, her voice that made it eloguent with joy. Her very treat had life and gladness to it. Bis'tis gone and silence fills her place and solitude spreads like a shadow over the very walls. Not a place, chair or book is what it was when she was here. Alas! how fondly do we concentrate our happiness in one beloved form! a human form so perishably frail! On that one form we staked our earthly joy. In that one life we lived. It was our world; that gone, our sun is darkened and the scene, of late so full of beauty is rife with desolation. From the dark ruins of our withered love, methinks there comes a voice in unison with thine, eternal Father! "Set your affections upon things above, lay up your treasures there!" and not beneath: earth is too treacherous for so vast a trust." Funeral services were conducted on Sunday afternoon at the Church of the Brethren, Pleasant Hill, by the Pastor, Rev. John A. Robinson, assisted by Rev. J. M. Pittenger. Burial in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
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