The following was provided by Linda Thompson:
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From the Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss., Jan. 3, 1959, p. 2:
Miss Anabel Power, to whom death came as gently as she lived, was laid to rest among her loved ones in old Greenwood cemetery Friday morning, Jan. 2. Scion of one of Jackson’s oldest and most distinguished families, Miss Power died quietly in her sleep, sometime in the early morning hours of New Year’s Eve, in the family home at 411 E. Amite street, where she had spent her entire life. She was 87 years old.
A pioneer career woman, retired several years ago, Miss Power was the unofficial historian of Jackson and wrote a regular column for the Sunday Clarion-Ledger-Jackson Daily News based on information from the voluminous files of her late father, Col. J. L. Power, one-time owner of The Clarion-Ledger. She made national headlines several years ago when she visited the Executive Mansion with the loan of an egg to refute Governor Coleman’s remark that the only disadvantage to living in the mansion was the fact that there were no neighbors nearby to borrow from.
Last rites for Miss Power were held at 10 a.m. from the chapel at Wright and Ferguson Home yesterday morning, with interment in the old cemetery between North West and Lamar streets. The chapel was filled with flowers in vivid colors which well reflected the brightness of “Miss Anabel’s” outlook on life. At the right side, just in front of the section where her nieces and nephews were seated for the last rites, a large design of red carnations were centered with the numerals, “30,” the time-honored symbol of the newspaper profession signifying the end of a story.
Dr. John Reed Miller, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, conducted the service, reading passages from the Bible which were Miss Power’s favorites. Among the most meaningful, according to the notations made by Miss Power in her own Bible, and quoted by Dr. Miller, were Psalms: 23, Psalms: 27, Psalms: 92; Psalms: 116; Psalms: 121; Romans: 8; and Luke: 18. Dr. Miller’s funeral address was indeed a brief sermon on Miss Power’s life, summed up in the text, “Thy faith has saved thee.” Faith, Dr. Miller asserted, of Miss Power’s kind, saves one from despair, anxiety and loneliness, and is not only trust in God and confidence in God but complete commitment to God. Among the selections of music played on the organ were “Going Home” and “Abide with Me.”
Active pallbearers were: Dr. Kirby Walker, Paul Sleigher, John W. Saunders, John W. Robinson, Ramsey Roberts, Judge Stokes Robertson Jr., R. Lee Hagaman and Jack Reese.
Honorary pallbearers were W. F. Bond, Stokes V. Robertson, Judge Garland Lyell, James Alexander, Chalmers Alexander, Dr. Laugh Hughes, Dr. E. A. May, Dr. J. R. Cavett, Jr., Dr. F. J. Underwood, Governor Hugh White, M. L. Legler and Percy Stewart of Natchez.
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From the Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss., Jan. 3, 1959, p. 2:
Miss Anabel Power, to whom death came as gently as she lived, was laid to rest among her loved ones in old Greenwood cemetery Friday morning, Jan. 2. Scion of one of Jackson’s oldest and most distinguished families, Miss Power died quietly in her sleep, sometime in the early morning hours of New Year’s Eve, in the family home at 411 E. Amite street, where she had spent her entire life. She was 87 years old.
A pioneer career woman, retired several years ago, Miss Power was the unofficial historian of Jackson and wrote a regular column for the Sunday Clarion-Ledger-Jackson Daily News based on information from the voluminous files of her late father, Col. J. L. Power, one-time owner of The Clarion-Ledger. She made national headlines several years ago when she visited the Executive Mansion with the loan of an egg to refute Governor Coleman’s remark that the only disadvantage to living in the mansion was the fact that there were no neighbors nearby to borrow from.
Last rites for Miss Power were held at 10 a.m. from the chapel at Wright and Ferguson Home yesterday morning, with interment in the old cemetery between North West and Lamar streets. The chapel was filled with flowers in vivid colors which well reflected the brightness of “Miss Anabel’s” outlook on life. At the right side, just in front of the section where her nieces and nephews were seated for the last rites, a large design of red carnations were centered with the numerals, “30,” the time-honored symbol of the newspaper profession signifying the end of a story.
Dr. John Reed Miller, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, conducted the service, reading passages from the Bible which were Miss Power’s favorites. Among the most meaningful, according to the notations made by Miss Power in her own Bible, and quoted by Dr. Miller, were Psalms: 23, Psalms: 27, Psalms: 92; Psalms: 116; Psalms: 121; Romans: 8; and Luke: 18. Dr. Miller’s funeral address was indeed a brief sermon on Miss Power’s life, summed up in the text, “Thy faith has saved thee.” Faith, Dr. Miller asserted, of Miss Power’s kind, saves one from despair, anxiety and loneliness, and is not only trust in God and confidence in God but complete commitment to God. Among the selections of music played on the organ were “Going Home” and “Abide with Me.”
Active pallbearers were: Dr. Kirby Walker, Paul Sleigher, John W. Saunders, John W. Robinson, Ramsey Roberts, Judge Stokes Robertson Jr., R. Lee Hagaman and Jack Reese.
Honorary pallbearers were W. F. Bond, Stokes V. Robertson, Judge Garland Lyell, James Alexander, Chalmers Alexander, Dr. Laugh Hughes, Dr. E. A. May, Dr. J. R. Cavett, Jr., Dr. F. J. Underwood, Governor Hugh White, M. L. Legler and Percy Stewart of Natchez.
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The following was provided by Linda Thompson:
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From the Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss., Jan. 3, 1959, p. 2:
Miss Anabel Power, to whom death came as gently as she lived, was laid to rest among her loved ones in old Greenwood cemetery Friday morning, Jan. 2. Scion of one of Jackson’s oldest and most distinguished families, Miss Power died quietly in her sleep, sometime in the early morning hours of New Year’s Eve, in the family home at 411 E. Amite street, where she had spent her entire life. She was 87 years old.
A pioneer career woman, retired several years ago, Miss Power was the unofficial historian of Jackson and wrote a regular column for the Sunday Clarion-Ledger-Jackson Daily News based on information from the voluminous files of her late father, Col. J. L. Power, one-time owner of The Clarion-Ledger. She made national headlines several years ago when she visited the Executive Mansion with the loan of an egg to refute Governor Coleman’s remark that the only disadvantage to living in the mansion was the fact that there were no neighbors nearby to borrow from.
Last rites for Miss Power were held at 10 a.m. from the chapel at Wright and Ferguson Home yesterday morning, with interment in the old cemetery between North West and Lamar streets. The chapel was filled with flowers in vivid colors which well reflected the brightness of “Miss Anabel’s” outlook on life. At the right side, just in front of the section where her nieces and nephews were seated for the last rites, a large design of red carnations were centered with the numerals, “30,” the time-honored symbol of the newspaper profession signifying the end of a story.
Dr. John Reed Miller, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, conducted the service, reading passages from the Bible which were Miss Power’s favorites. Among the most meaningful, according to the notations made by Miss Power in her own Bible, and quoted by Dr. Miller, were Psalms: 23, Psalms: 27, Psalms: 92; Psalms: 116; Psalms: 121; Romans: 8; and Luke: 18. Dr. Miller’s funeral address was indeed a brief sermon on Miss Power’s life, summed up in the text, “Thy faith has saved thee.” Faith, Dr. Miller asserted, of Miss Power’s kind, saves one from despair, anxiety and loneliness, and is not only trust in God and confidence in God but complete commitment to God. Among the selections of music played on the organ were “Going Home” and “Abide with Me.”
Active pallbearers were: Dr. Kirby Walker, Paul Sleigher, John W. Saunders, John W. Robinson, Ramsey Roberts, Judge Stokes Robertson Jr., R. Lee Hagaman and Jack Reese.
Honorary pallbearers were W. F. Bond, Stokes V. Robertson, Judge Garland Lyell, James Alexander, Chalmers Alexander, Dr. Laugh Hughes, Dr. E. A. May, Dr. J. R. Cavett, Jr., Dr. F. J. Underwood, Governor Hugh White, M. L. Legler and Percy Stewart of Natchez.
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[Links to parents provided by Martha Reid 19 UDC.]
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From the Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss., Jan. 3, 1959, p. 2:
Miss Anabel Power, to whom death came as gently as she lived, was laid to rest among her loved ones in old Greenwood cemetery Friday morning, Jan. 2. Scion of one of Jackson’s oldest and most distinguished families, Miss Power died quietly in her sleep, sometime in the early morning hours of New Year’s Eve, in the family home at 411 E. Amite street, where she had spent her entire life. She was 87 years old.
A pioneer career woman, retired several years ago, Miss Power was the unofficial historian of Jackson and wrote a regular column for the Sunday Clarion-Ledger-Jackson Daily News based on information from the voluminous files of her late father, Col. J. L. Power, one-time owner of The Clarion-Ledger. She made national headlines several years ago when she visited the Executive Mansion with the loan of an egg to refute Governor Coleman’s remark that the only disadvantage to living in the mansion was the fact that there were no neighbors nearby to borrow from.
Last rites for Miss Power were held at 10 a.m. from the chapel at Wright and Ferguson Home yesterday morning, with interment in the old cemetery between North West and Lamar streets. The chapel was filled with flowers in vivid colors which well reflected the brightness of “Miss Anabel’s” outlook on life. At the right side, just in front of the section where her nieces and nephews were seated for the last rites, a large design of red carnations were centered with the numerals, “30,” the time-honored symbol of the newspaper profession signifying the end of a story.
Dr. John Reed Miller, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, conducted the service, reading passages from the Bible which were Miss Power’s favorites. Among the most meaningful, according to the notations made by Miss Power in her own Bible, and quoted by Dr. Miller, were Psalms: 23, Psalms: 27, Psalms: 92; Psalms: 116; Psalms: 121; Romans: 8; and Luke: 18. Dr. Miller’s funeral address was indeed a brief sermon on Miss Power’s life, summed up in the text, “Thy faith has saved thee.” Faith, Dr. Miller asserted, of Miss Power’s kind, saves one from despair, anxiety and loneliness, and is not only trust in God and confidence in God but complete commitment to God. Among the selections of music played on the organ were “Going Home” and “Abide with Me.”
Active pallbearers were: Dr. Kirby Walker, Paul Sleigher, John W. Saunders, John W. Robinson, Ramsey Roberts, Judge Stokes Robertson Jr., R. Lee Hagaman and Jack Reese.
Honorary pallbearers were W. F. Bond, Stokes V. Robertson, Judge Garland Lyell, James Alexander, Chalmers Alexander, Dr. Laugh Hughes, Dr. E. A. May, Dr. J. R. Cavett, Jr., Dr. F. J. Underwood, Governor Hugh White, M. L. Legler and Percy Stewart of Natchez.
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