MABEL JANETTA SMITH

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MABEL JANETTA SMITH (nee Cookman) August 29, 2007 You have been gone a year now and you are sorely missed by your daughter and son-in-law, as well many other family and extended family. The day I was told you were gone was the saddest day of my life, but, you're in Heaven with Dad now. You will always be remembered by so many people as a very caring and loving wife, mother, mother-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, aunt, great-aunt, step-grandmother and friend. We love you and we miss you. Excerpt from Grandma Cookmans Wedding Book from 1920 She was all this: true woman, truest wife and crowned with age than fairest youth more fair; A saintly aureole her silvered hair; single of heart, and so secure from strife, Though all the world with discords might be rife; Walking serenely in the purer air. They breathe who know the master everywhere; sheltered and sheltering in wedded life So did she reach at length her journeys et. I, And left him standing without uncovered head. Where part their ways , only seem to part, The sundered presence is the unsundered heart, The closer union with the spirit fled, That only saints and angels comprehend.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Aug 30, 2008