Kilsyth Anderson Church Magazine autumn 2013 | Page 7

Our Family

10 years ago Edith wrote a poem to celebrate her 90th Birthday.
Here is the poem she wrote but updated..
One Hundred Years Young
One hundred years ago, on one October morn,
a tiny baby girl was born.
Her mother could not believe the sight
when first she gazed on her tiny mite.
She murmured, shedding a silent tear,
”How can I ever hope this child to rear?”
A few weeks went by, then a great day came.
In a cosy white shawl, she was taken to Church to be given her name
The minister held her close, as he would his own daughter,
then Christened her “Edith” making the sign of the Cross with the Holy Water.
The mother looked on with a grateful smile,
knowing her wee mite had made the first mile
And now, after giving everyone a fright all those years ago,
when first she gazed on her tiny mite.
What do you know, the wee mite is still here today,
Enjoying with her friends, Her 100th Birthday

Baptism
22nd September Cali Anne Jean Lowe
daughter of Francis and Anne Lowe,

Deaths
1st August

Mr John (Jack) Kelly

6th September

Mrs Christina Muldoon

17th September Mrs Helen Bankier
19th September Mrs Anne Kelly
Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted. Matthew 5:4

Congratulations and best wishes Edith
You are one in a hundred!

Mrs Elizabeth Bone 1919 – 2013
Elizabeth (Betty) and her husband, Rev. Robert (Bob) T Bone came
to Kilsyth during the Rev. James Ross’s ministry after Bob retired.
They lived in Burnbank Terrace and were members of our church.
After Bob died in 1997 she left to stay in Dundee. For the past 4 years she
has been living with her daughter, Jennifer in Milton Keynes. A letter to
the Minister from her daughter said that “She died at the age of 94 with
the same grace and dignity with which she lived”
Many of you will remember Betty, with the help of others, collecting
brambles and making jelly for Christian Aid .
Our sympathy goes to the family