Stillwater Valley News
October 14, 1929
Sarah Reiber
On the twenty-fourth day of February, 1856, in the village of Pleasant Hill, Sarah Deeter was born, to bless the union of Fred and Emily Ripple Deeter, and on Tuesday, October 8th, she heard the summons of her Master at the age of 73 years, 7 months and 14 days. On February 28h, 1878 she was united in marriage to William Reiber and to this union two children were given, a son and a daughter, Fred and Emma. When a young woman, yet in her teens she accepted Christ as her Saviour and united with the Brethren Church to which she has continued faithful unto death. On the 2nd day of June, 1924, she was stricken with paralysis and for more than five years has been in a helpless condition. Besides her faithful husband who ministered to her needs through the long years of her affliction, she leaves her children, Fred of Dayton, and Emma Tucker of Covington: ten grandchildren, and two great grandchildren to mourn her departure. Also three sisters, Dora Coats, of Detroit, and Mina Coate and Nellie Gibon, of Troy, together with many other relatives and friends who will miss her. "Neither shall there be any more pain"-Write it in letters of gold. Write it upon the blazing sunset-spell it with stars in the darkest night of your affliction, O, suffering child of God, languishing long years on beds of affliction, with thorns in thy flesh that even faith and prayer cannot remove. Shout it in the throng-sing it out from the everlasting hills-"Neither shall there be any more pain-for former things she passed away. And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me write "blessed are they which die in the Lord, and their works for follow them."
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