At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of November 13 at the Driftwood church southeast of Culbertson an estimated attendance of some five hundred people gathered to pay their last respects to Mrs. Lynn B. Hoyt, who went to her reward early Sunday morning, November 11. The services were in charge of her pastor, Rev. M.S. Satchell of the Methodist church. He was ably assisted by Rev. David Hooge of the Mennonite church of Culbertson, Rev. C.C. Coleman of the Pilgrim Holiness church of Bladen, and Rev. Marion Hill of the Pilgrim Holliness church of Stratton.

Rev. Satchell spoke from II Cor. 5:1, emphasizing the thought that this house in which we live, by the very course of nature will not always meet our needs. The "moving out" time comes. How necessary it is that we have a title clear to the house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.

Rev. Hooge used as a basis for his thought, Number 23:10 and Psalms 116:15. He spoke of the hope of the Christian. The one who has been born of the spirit and washed in the atoning blood and Jesus, and is true to the end, leaves this world with a hope, an assurance, a security and at God's appointed time. But, if we wish to die the death of the righteous, we must live the life of the righteous.

Rev. Coleman spoke of the three appointments as given in I Thessalonians 5:9 and Hebrews 9:27. Since we are creatures of choice, we may evade the first one by refusing to accept the appointment to obtain salvation, but we cannot escape the latter two unless perchance we are of the number who are on earth at the second coming of Jesus, and are ready to be caught away to meet Him in the air, and so be forever with Him.

The entire service was of an evangelistic type which we are sure was in keeping with what the deceased would have desired could her desire would been made known.

Singers from the Driftwood church, rendered several selections as did also Rev. and Mrs. Hooge.

The large attendance at the funeral, the many beautiful floral offerings that came from far and near, the many words of appreciation of life and service of the one who had gone, spoke of the great loss the family and the community had sustained.

As the sun was sinking behind the western horizon, her body was lowered to its last resting place in the Culbertson cemetery, there to await its reunion with her blood washed soul on the resurrection morning.
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Ruth Luella Householder Hoyt, daughter of W.B. and Selena Ray Householder, began her earthly existence near Douglas, Knox County, Illinois and went to be with Jesus from her home near McCook, November 11, 1934.

When a small child. she moved with her parents to Webster county, Nebraska settling near Bladen. Here Ruth grew to womanhood. She completed the course in the public schools and studied in the Kearney State Normal, Nebraska Wesleyan and the University of Nebraska Teachers' college to fit herself further for her chosen profession. For a number of years she was one of the most successful teachers of Webster county where there are a large number of former pupils who revere her memory.

In 1911 she was graduated from Chicago Evangelistic Institute and for several years thereafter gave her life in devoted service to a Methodist Mission school in Thomasville, Georgia. At an early age Ruth gave her heart to the Lord and united with the Methodist Episcopal church, continuing as a member until her death. Her changed heart naturally sought the most spiritual things, and she was ever reaching out to know the Lord better and to encourage others to know Him. In whatever community her lot was cast, she was an aggressive factor in its betterment along educational, moral and spiritual lines. People always knew on which side of a question they would find her.

On June 16, 1920 she was united in marriage to Lynn B. Hoyt of McCook, Nebraska and came to this community to make her home. The community at once began to take on new spiritual life. A Sunday school that has ceased to exist was reorganized and again and again she was re-elected to the place of superintendent, which office she filled very capably until the day of her home-going. Through her efforts, various spiritual ministers fed the flock at this place of worship.

Though failing in strength, she gave of her best to the last, as will be seen by the fact that two weeks before her departure she was in attendance at a county union Sunday school convention at Beverly, pushing the work of the Sunday school. At this meeting she was elected president of the organization. On Sunday night November 4, at a Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting in Culbertson, she very ably gave the reading "A Voice From the Poor House."

Today, as friends in the community stand by her casket, again and again are heard such expressions as these: "How can we get along without her?" "How the Sunday school children will miss her, for they all loved her." "If all of us would only stand always for the highest and best things as she did, what a different community we would have in which to rear our children." "If we could only live as she lived we would be prepared to go as she went."

For weeks before her departure, those who were the most closely associated with her, felt she was ripening for another world. Earth seemed to be receding, heaven advancing, and the burden of souls increasing. Her voice was often heard in prayer for her loved ones who were neglecting the most important thing of life, the soul's salvation. When talking a few hours before her death of her readiness to meet God, she stated there was nothing between her soul and the Savior and she was ready to meet Him. A few days previous she said to her husband, "I am looking for the Savior to come. Would not it be glorious to be changed in the twinkling of an eye?" She surely was suddenly changed though not by the rapture, but she closed her eyes in natural sleep, and awoke in another world.

She leaves to mourn their loss, her devoted husband, Lynn B. Hoyt; three step-children, Mrs. Doane Trail, Eleanor, and Willard Hoyt; her brothers, Arthur and Fred; her sisters, Mrs. A.R. Larrick, Mrs. P.H. Larrick, Mrs. Carrie Anderson, Mrs. J.J. Berns, Misses Eva and Elois Householder, all of Bladen; Mrs. C.H. Fritz of Lincoln, Nebraska; Miss Mamye Householder of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Miss Ethel Householder of Centerville, Iowa; besides many more remote relatives and a host of friends. How very few there are, who, independent of prestige or position, by the power of personality and a life of loving service, made and held through the years, such a host of friends as did Ruth Householder-Hoyt.

Dear, patient, courageous, brave soul! You have fought a good fight, you have finished your course, we believe you kept the faith and that henceforth there is laid up for you a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge will give, and not you only, but all them also who love His appearing.

Source: The Culbertson Progress, November 15, 1934