"God Hath Not Promised Skies Always Blue"
Sister Helen Faye Cole Powell
Alpha February 22, 1935
Omega March 1982 (date unknown)
Service Sunday, March 28, 1982
Sister Helen Cole Powell was born February 22, 1935 in West Monroe, Louisiana to the parents of Mrs. Helen Jackson Cole and the late Mr. Lee Cole.
She confessed Christ at an early age and was baptized by Elder Thomas Kennedy, Mt. Pleasant Church of God in Christ. She worked diligently in the church serving God and mankind as a young child. With a strong spiritual upbringing, her childhood aspirations was to "Love they Fellowman". She then united with the Piney Grove Baptist Church, West Monroe and served faithful until her illness.
She was united in Holy matrimony with Brother Eli Powell to this union six children were born.
Sister Powell leaves in remembrance: her mother, Mrs. Helen Cole of Monroe, Louisiana; two daughters, Loretta P. Myles of Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Sonja Powell of Monroe, Louisiana; four sons, Terry Powell of Seattle, Washington, Ellis Powell, Chris Powell and Gerald Powell, all of Monroe, Louisiana; one brother, Johnny Cole of West Monroe, Louisiana; six grandchildren; six aunts; three uncles; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Poem
God hath not promised skies always blue,
Flowers strewn pathways all our lives through.
God hath not promised sun without rain
Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.
But God hath promised strength for the day.
Rest for the laborer and peace for his children.
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