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Show ! NINA BURGER ! DIES IN IDAHO Services were conducted Mon-, Mon-, day for Mrs. Nina D. Burger, 58, I in Boise, Idaho. Mrs. Burger ! died at the home of a sister, Mrs. Helen Shaver, in Boise. Mrs. Burger was born Jan. 29, 1894, in Caldwell, Idaho, and had lived in Utah since 1914. She was chief operator at Mil-' Mil-' ford, and had been employed by , the Mountain States Telephone , and Telegraph Co. for 17 years. She was a member of the Pres-I Pres-I byterian Church, and the Order of Eastern Star. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Smith, McCall, Idaho, and Mrs. Shaver; three nephews and a niece. i I IN MEMORIAM i (By Mrs. Vena Wilson) J Our friend Nina Burger is no more. In her chosen field of endeavor she was a highly efficient effi-cient and untiring servant of the public's needs. To her daily task she brought the best of her strength and ability. No cheap substitute was ever offered. She resented all pretense and desired no recognition that she did not merit. It seems bu; yesterday that she was with us in our work and sharing with us the activities activi-ties and interests of our community com-munity life. Daily she walked our streets, always with a pleas- '''- . ' ' 1 v" ' I " J 4 --J ' j : i - I - - t : 1 a - . - ' V PTk t f i 1 Nina Burger ant greeting for everyone. She ever had a word of encouragement encourage-ment and appreciation for those who shared her labors. Her delicate, flower -like beauty, so admired by her friends, was but a lovely form which housed the finely-tempered steel of a tried and proven soul. In Nina's fragile body lived a truly gallant spirit. She turned to gaiety and laughter to happiness and joy, as unconsciously uncon-sciously as a' flower turns its face to the sun. But when the winepress of the years held its last deadly draught to her eager lips,' her courage never faltered as she planned the pattern of her last few days upon this earth. A lifetime of usefu1 service is ended and she has gone into that far country which lies beyond the gates of light, and is at peace with God. The years of her accomplishment are as a tale that is told. The harvest of her life has been garnered and she has come at last as all must come to He in state in that last sacred sleep that men call death. All her triumphs, all her defeats, all the unspoken longing of her (Continued on Back Page) Here's More About NINA BURGER Continued from Page One) seeking spirit, all the timid aspirations as-pirations scarcely known even to herself, all the hidden dreams so fragrant in their beauty, all the voiceless prayers that, gave her courage and strength to carry on these have all been gathered as a ripened sheaf and laid upon the altar of the Master Mas-ter of Life. And who may doubt that He who knows our hearts even better than we know ourselves, touched our offering of-fering with the divine magic of His love, and the perfume of her sacrifice was sweet as incense. in-cense. All is past today. She lives with us now only in memory. The house that she had planned to build has become a mansion not made with hands, eternal and in the Heavens. She has passed triumphantly through the Valley of the Shadow and out into the sunlit fields of that land where there is no more sorrow, for God shall wipe away all tears. Not long before her death she wrote a friend, "A quotation keeps going through my mind: 'Trust in the Lord with a'l thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, ! and He will direct thy paths'." And so with these sacred words upon her lips and in her heart, she went away from us, out th'-ough the flaming portal of a glorious summer sunset into the white silence with Him who is the Resurrection and the Life. "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written which no man knoweth saving he that received receiv-ed it." "Long after a beautiful life has gone To a fairer world on high, Our lives are bright with its lingering light For a true life cannot die." |