Comanche High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Comanche, TX)

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lin jllllemnrlam JOHN JEFFERSON CUNNINGHAM Thursdiv Febiuarv 20 1908 a brief b autlful life was ended on earth and a happy eternity begun in he iven Just it noon the Elder Shepherd came seeking his own and bore to the peaceful fold above the bright spirit of John Iefferson youngest son of Mr and Mr W B Cunningham John his father s pride his mother s Joy the light the life of the home The above prepared by the hand of an intimate friend of the family at the time of John s death expresses most pcrfectlv the sentiment of every one who knew him At his death John was a little moie than fifteen vears of age having been born December 14th 1892 Few bovs have passed the end of their fifteenth v ear with as much that is desuable and as little that is to be found Just where he was expected to be and doing iust what he was expected to be doing He was al ways prompt at school and prepared with his work His influence too among his fellow students was ever on the side of good order and obedience to authoritv On Sundav morning he was alwav s to be found in his place in Sundav School being among the first to arrive At other times he w as around the home doing the chores and performing to the fullest extent all the duties of a loving son and brother Indeed we should have to look far to find a more perfect example of a bright well disposed well behaved ind altogether lov able character than was his The high esteem in which he was held bv school mates teachers and friends was ev idcnced bv the deep interest that everyone took in his illness and bv the manv beautiful floral offerings given and by the immense concourse of people present at the time of his hurl il Mav we have in Comanche manv more characters as beautiful as his H 7 ...T K- 21, - Ny ' . , ' V 84 ' ' A v 1 ' ' ,Z v s 1 Z 5 L. 7' 'l- v V . v ' . , . . D. . . . , , , , . V . . ,, Y . , . , 1 I ,pl C I ss' lil x I I L . ' a I ' . . ' , L' L . , v, , . undesirable in their lives as John Cunningham. He was in every way a model Christian boy. He was always . . K . N Y A ! . X x . . Y I . Y ' 7 . . v 1 1 V V . , L , ' C c ' ' y ' y A- -v K1 - sw, K c ' V nw 7. A V .

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Ein jlllilemnruam NELLIE STEVENSON WITT Earth has two chief sorroxxs the sadness of p lrting and the sadness of unfinished uncompleted worle If Heax en held out no hope but relief from these sorrows it w ould be worth strlxing for De ith has alw axs the sting of parting ex en xx hen it comes to one w hose life work is ox er and with gen tle fingers closes tired ex es that are xx earx for the long sleep but when it comes to one whose life has just begun whose work IS scarce fullx planned it bears a double sting and xxe bow before it in very bitterness In bitterness but nex er in despair while we believe that God rules the Universe As He made the heavens and the earth He mlde the laws which gox ern them and ill living things and sinee it xx as better man should strixe through aets uncouth tow 1rd m ilxing than rel ose on aught found made He has left us to diseox er His laxxs and to harmonize our beings with them Shall we doubt that He sorrows with us when through ignor attribute to His direction de ith or distruetion in mx form And w hen sorrow eomes to us xxe must beliexe that His sorrow is as much greater than ouis 'is His infinite undeistanding is gre iter than our short human sight Nor has he left us comfortless With loxlng xoice if we listen He points the w ax out of oui sorrow teaches us to gather up the broken thre tds of life and bind them into a stronger cord We haxe lost one w ho had grown into our hearts ind lix es one of those rare braxe spirits whose strength is evel as 1 well spring of inspiration to we iker stieams of lite whose vigor and xivielne s is in eleetrie touch to all xx ith whom thex come in contaet Death has stolen her eartl life but we may yet pluck from his hands the palm of xietorx and glxe her an lmmortalitx on eirth bx reflecting in our own lix es the ideals ard high incentix es which actuated her And therein will she llxe imong us and among oul children s children though her xoice be silent here forex ermore 7 1 1 ' 1 1 1. -1 1 ' 1 ' s 1 ' ' 1 , 1 V Cn ' s n 1 1 s C x 1 1 g 1 5 I L vgwv . v v xs I v. . 2 L1 1 1: L1 ' ' v 1 1 ' L1 1 K1 ' 1- 1 1 ' 1 1 3 ' , ,' - U kwkw' v Q k I . V . X v . ' xxx I : . A1 y kv 1 . ' 2 V , , , 2 .Z K, . 1 , X. ' -': 'z 2 1 ' , . s 'X v: C 1 ' . 1' I 1 vka 1' v I - ance or otherwise, these laws are broken, and disaster follows? We do our Creator an infinite wrong, if we . .kv . . ' 2 .K1 3 1 . 2 .V . v 1 1' 5 1 L1' v l v - : 1 i 1 1' ' ' ' ' 'iz - .f S' . K1 L1 Sk.. 1' 1 ' . ' 1 1 'L1 v ' K. 1 L1 . L. 1: 1 L1 1 1 ' A1 2 ' 1 S: K-1 1 3' 1 x1 ' ' L1 1 K V. V v' . U ' I X 1- . V I V 1 .Ls I 1