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Sarah Lamont Utter obituary
contributed by Barry Schinnerer
SARAH LAMONT UTTER 1854 - 1929
Seventy-five years ago on an old family
farm nears Shults Corners, one March day there was born to William and Magdalen
Richtmeyer a daughter to whom they gave the name Sarah. With the years she grew
into a vivacious , sparkling black-eyed girl-the prettiest girl men averred for
miles around.
While yet in her teens she married Edward son of the
late Judge William C Lamont and for almost thirty years as hostess she
maintained the generous life gracious hospitality of Lamont Farm-one of those
fortunate farms where life was not so crowded with workaday tasks but that there
was time and room for other things.
It was a home of fine traditions where so frequently
there were extra plates on the board and quests at the gate
Edward Lamont on in 1906, she subsequently married
Lewis Utter and for more than twenty years they to have made their home and
enjoyed an honorable place in the life of the Lawyersville community.
She was a women of rare charm of manner and possessed
that happy disposition which under almost any circumstance looked out on life
with sunny, smiling eyes.
Throughout her life, including her last active Sunday
in the world she sang in the Lawyersville church choir.
By nature she was endowed with rare musical ability. Of
technical training she had almost none but in earlier years her voice was in
demand far and near where ever music was called for in the surrounding
countryside.
She was a women zealous for good works. Her whole life
was centered around the Lawyersville church and her hopes and prayers followed
it until the end. Now we may say of her as of the Saints of old “She rests from
her labors and her works do follow her”.
And still her earthly personality caries on. “Give her
fruits of her hands and let her own words praise her in the gates”
She is survived by her husband Lewis Utter of
Lawyersville, a daughter Mrs. Jared Van Wagenen, Jr. and four grandchildren, Mrs
E B Terbush of Ellenville, and Loraine Margaret and Jared Van Wegenen III, of
Lawyersville, There are also three great-great grandchildren.
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