The obituary of Kelly Stamper as published in the June 14, 1934, issue of The Mountain Eagle:
LETCHER CITIZEN PASSES AWAY
After many months of suffering from high blood pressure and a stroke or two of paralysis resulting therefrom, Kelly Stamper of Kings Creek passed away last Saturday night. Kelly was around sixty-two years and up until the last year or so had been an active as well as a well-to-do county farmer. He married a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Caudill Sr. of Blackey and reared one of the best families in the county. Kell Stamper was loved and honored as much so as any man in the county and numbered his friends by the thousands. As to the editor of the Eagle, he never had a better or warmer friend, and when the word of his passing reached him he could but become shocked and dumb. The passing of such men from the brotherhood of citizenship strikes it a sad blow.
Entry of the remains were made in the little family cemetery overlooking the home on Monday with appropriate services and the assembly of hundreds of relatives and friends.
To the broken-hearted widow, the weeping children, left fatherless, and all who feel this the saddest of blows, we offer here a word of sympathy. Since hearing of our friends' death these lines have been awake in our inner being:
We know you are safe, but we miss you,
We know you are free from all pain,
We know, though our hearts be aching,
That our loss is truly your gain.
The joys of which you were the center!
The laughter entwined with your bark!
Yes, we shall miss you at daybreak and sunset,
Without you the way will seem dark.
But Kelly, our Kelly, we're knowing,
All life is a spark of that one,
So your life cannot end with the passing,
Your real life has only begun.
LETCHER CITIZEN PASSES AWAY
After many months of suffering from high blood pressure and a stroke or two of paralysis resulting therefrom, Kelly Stamper of Kings Creek passed away last Saturday night. Kelly was around sixty-two years and up until the last year or so had been an active as well as a well-to-do county farmer. He married a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Caudill Sr. of Blackey and reared one of the best families in the county. Kell Stamper was loved and honored as much so as any man in the county and numbered his friends by the thousands. As to the editor of the Eagle, he never had a better or warmer friend, and when the word of his passing reached him he could but become shocked and dumb. The passing of such men from the brotherhood of citizenship strikes it a sad blow.
Entry of the remains were made in the little family cemetery overlooking the home on Monday with appropriate services and the assembly of hundreds of relatives and friends.
To the broken-hearted widow, the weeping children, left fatherless, and all who feel this the saddest of blows, we offer here a word of sympathy. Since hearing of our friends' death these lines have been awake in our inner being:
We know you are safe, but we miss you,
We know you are free from all pain,
We know, though our hearts be aching,
That our loss is truly your gain.
The joys of which you were the center!
The laughter entwined with your bark!
Yes, we shall miss you at daybreak and sunset,
Without you the way will seem dark.
But Kelly, our Kelly, we're knowing,
All life is a spark of that one,
So your life cannot end with the passing,
Your real life has only begun.
The obituary of Kelly Stamper as published in the June 14, 1934, issue of The Mountain Eagle:
LETCHER CITIZEN PASSES AWAY
After many months of suffering from high blood pressure and a stroke or two of paralysis resulting therefrom, Kelly Stamper of Kings Creek passed away last Saturday night. Kelly was around sixty-two years and up until the last year or so had been an active as well as a well-to-do county farmer. He married a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Caudill Sr. of Blackey and reared one of the best families in the county. Kell Stamper was loved and honored as much so as any man in the county and numbered his friends by the thousands. As to the editor of the Eagle, he never had a better or warmer friend, and when the word of his passing reached him he could but become shocked and dumb. The passing of such men from the brotherhood of citizenship strikes it a sad blow.
Entry of the remains were made in the little family cemetery overlooking the home on Monday with appropriate services and the assembly of hundreds of relatives and friends.
To the broken-hearted widow, the weeping children, left fatherless, and all who feel this the saddest of blows, we offer here a word of sympathy. Since hearing of our friends' death these lines have been awake in our inner being:
We know you are safe, but we miss you,
We know you are free from all pain,
We know, though our hearts be aching,
That our loss is truly your gain.
The joys of which you were the center!
The laughter entwined with your bark!
Yes, we shall miss you at daybreak and sunset,
Without you the way will seem dark.
But Kelly, our Kelly, we're knowing,
All life is a spark of that one,
So your life cannot end with the passing,
Your real life has only begun.
LETCHER CITIZEN PASSES AWAY
After many months of suffering from high blood pressure and a stroke or two of paralysis resulting therefrom, Kelly Stamper of Kings Creek passed away last Saturday night. Kelly was around sixty-two years and up until the last year or so had been an active as well as a well-to-do county farmer. He married a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Caudill Sr. of Blackey and reared one of the best families in the county. Kell Stamper was loved and honored as much so as any man in the county and numbered his friends by the thousands. As to the editor of the Eagle, he never had a better or warmer friend, and when the word of his passing reached him he could but become shocked and dumb. The passing of such men from the brotherhood of citizenship strikes it a sad blow.
Entry of the remains were made in the little family cemetery overlooking the home on Monday with appropriate services and the assembly of hundreds of relatives and friends.
To the broken-hearted widow, the weeping children, left fatherless, and all who feel this the saddest of blows, we offer here a word of sympathy. Since hearing of our friends' death these lines have been awake in our inner being:
We know you are safe, but we miss you,
We know you are free from all pain,
We know, though our hearts be aching,
That our loss is truly your gain.
The joys of which you were the center!
The laughter entwined with your bark!
Yes, we shall miss you at daybreak and sunset,
Without you the way will seem dark.
But Kelly, our Kelly, we're knowing,
All life is a spark of that one,
So your life cannot end with the passing,
Your real life has only begun.
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