Manning Times, Wednesday, March 21, 1923

Last Saturday afternoon about 4pm this town was shocked when it was reported that Mrs Rosa Weinberg was dead. Mrs Weinberg was taken ill with pneumonia about 3 weeks ago, but was considered cured of that ailment. But on Saturday, while seemingly in good spirits and feeling much better, she all at once collapsed and expired in a few seconds.

The deceased was loved by both white and colored, young and old, and was affectionately called “Miss Rosa” by everybody. She will be missed not only by her immediate family, but by those who daily stopped to talk to her as she worked her way in and around her flower yard that she so beautifully kept. “Miss Rosa” did, we venture to say, more charity work than any other woman in the county---the poor had a friend in her, and her place will be hard to fill with the needy people. She was a good woman; a woman ever ready to lend a helping hand to suffering humanity. But also, “Death loves a shining mark” and so it came. In the death of Mrs Rosa Weinberg we fully and keenly realize our loss. She was a true friend, and her devotion to those she loved would make a bright chapter in any life. Nothing but the thought of the loving hand that has removed her can reconcile us to her absence. While she has gone from the scenes, the conflicts, the sorrows and pleasures of life, she will still live in the hearts of those who knew her best. She was a kind, loving mother, and her devotion to the family circle had no limit. Life will never be the same to those who knew her, while those who were nearest to her will long for her with unutterable longings----long for a mother’s counsel and advice.

She ran the journey of life in 68 years. To her the struggle and burden of bearing of earth are ended, and we confidently trust that like one who awakes from a troubled dream she has awakened to see life’s endless morning break and knows herself at home with all the vast throng of loved ones, missed from earth, safe about her.

Impressive funeral services were held at her late home in Manning, after which all that was mortal of this grand old mother of Israel was tenderly conveyed to the Sumter cemetery, where she now rests in peace. The floral offerings could not have been surpassed in profusion and beauty. The grave being a veritable flower bed.

The deceased in survived by the following children: Drs. Abe and Milton, Sumter; Jake, Washington; Lester, Kingstree; Leon, Julian, Bertram, Addie, Irma Weinberg and Mrs Nettie Geiger, all of Manning. Also several brothers, two sisters, and hosts of friends and other relatives.

The active pallbearers were her sons, one grandson, Stanley Weinberg, and Dr C.B. Geiger, a son-in-law. Honorary pallbearers were Dr J. F Geiger, Joseph Sprott; J.T. Stukes, JD Gerald, Louis Levi, Ferdinand Levi, JH Rigsby, WM Plowden, and I I Appelt.

To the heart broken family the writer extends his sincere sympathy, for in this death we feel that we have all lost a member of our own family.