Obituary of Elizabeth Blest (d.1916)

Post date: Mar 06, 2012 9:16:28 PM

Extract from Parish magazine of April 1916:

Mrs Blest's life was one of more varied experience, perhaps, than that of Mrs. Hole, but in kindliness of nature the two ladies had much in common. The daughter of Mr. John Beale Jude, who built Broomscroft, Elizabeth Ann Blest spent practically all her life in the home in which she died. Struggling patiently and cheerfully for a long time with uncertain health, she devoted herself to her home and to the opportunities of helping others which offered themselves in the parish. She, too, loved her Church, and nothing, not even ill-health, interfered with the regularity of her attendance at its services. She will be greatly missed by all who were privileged to own her friendship. She was a true friend to the people of the cottages which she took under her care as District Visitor. No one knows how much thought and sympathy she gave to them, her work was so quietly and unobtrusively done. The regard and affection which people felt for her, and their sympathy with her family, were manifested by their presence at the funeral service in the Church and afterwards at the Cemetery, where her body was laid to rest on March 24th, the day before the death of her cousin, Mr. Richard Fremlin.