JESSIE SMITH GAMBLE

Where did you get married?

Beecher and I were married at the manse here in Summerside in 1927 by the Rev. J. C. Martin. He had retired from the Church in Lot 16. Oh, he was a favourite minister of mine. And I remember this quite well — he (the minister) gave me a kiss, and his wife embraced Beecher and said, ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’ and she kissed the groom!

The following is a poem Qf sympathy written by jessie Smith Gamble. She composed the poem to convey sympathy to Mr and Mrs. Beecher Ford and fizmily on the death (f their son and brother Raymond Lemuel, aged four- teen, was killed by an auto, july 4, 1955, at the Linkletter Road.

In Loving Sympathy

Though but a bud he is called to leave you Heaven will unfold it’s brightest bloom,

0 Death this is thy sting

But Christ will reign victorious o’er the tomb.

In his heavenly home so happy, N’er shall sorrow cloud his brow. Let his though sustain and comfort, Safe in the arms ofJesus now.

Youth and age are ever going, God who gives them takes them hence. Oh, ever yield to his divine will,

Our rock, our surety, our defense.

Danger and evil lurked around him, while he, on this earth remained

In heaven, he is now sheltered Never to taste death again.

He is waiting for his loved ones, Soon with them his joys to share, Where no family ties are broken United in God’s loving care. '

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