Hilda Narene Kinney

Stillwater Valley News
November 22, 1937

In Memoriam

Hilda Narene Kinney, the first daughter of Melville Russell Kinney and Eunice Coppock Kinney, was born September 25, 1909, at Piqua, Ohio, and lived in Covington until her marriage to Thomas Barton Kyle on July 28, 1930, in the Little Church Around the Corner in New York City, returning to reside at Tippecanoe City. She died Sunday evening, November 14, at the age of 28. She leaves to mourn her loss; her husband; her three children, Carolyn, six, Thomas, five and James, two, her mother and father; two brothers, Robert and James; and a sister Dorothy, her grandmother, Mrs. Adda Coppock, besides a great number of relatives and friends.

Hilda Kyle was a beautiful person. When I say that she was beautiful, I mean not only that she was beautiful in face and form, and the possessor of a beautiful voice which she used generously; but also that she was beautiful in spirit. She possessed a radiant friendliness that never failed to bring its response in other people. She was a happy person, and grew up under happy circumstances. She was the product of life as it ought to be.

She was one of a group of friends who went to school together, who have kept a close companionship from then to the present day, and her loss is especially felt in this circle. To her mother, she was more like a sister than a daughter, and she brought this same fine companionableness into her marriage. Her husband keenly recognized this blessing and the richness of this quality in its perfect effect upon the children.

Aside from her intelligent care of her home and her three children, she found time for service in the church and in the Civic Club.

There was only one Hilda Kyle, and you could depend upon her as always being herself, genuine and poised, and sweetly reasonable. Her life seemed incomplete because the future apparently held so much in store for her. But she lived abundantly the years that were granted her; and you who loved her, can have the comfort of knowing that you have made her very happy while she was here, and that you had that last afternoon together before suddenly and without warning, this shining spirit returned unto the Lord who gave it. "The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

I know not what the future hath 
Of marvel or surprise
I only know that life and death,
His mercy underlies.

And so beside the silent sea
I wait the muffled oar, 
No harm from Him can come to me
On ocean or on shore

**ends here, but it seems as if there might have been more.