She had the best laugh \u2013 loud and hearty and she was always cheerful. No one could walk past the house without a \u2018hello\u2019 from Effie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yes, her obituary gives the facts: when and where she was born; whom she married; the groups she belonged to; the details of her death and who the survivors were.<\/p>\n But\u2026it is her story that sticks with us. She \u201cloved to cook…to try new recipes and share them with her friends. And she had a lot of friends.\u201d<\/p>\n She was always worrying about those who were sick. She would call them and pray for them. Effie said \u2018no matter how many health problems I have, there are always those worse off than me.\u2019 She was a friend to everyone she met and loved by many more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Find the stories of every one of your relatives.<\/p>\n What a terrific person. She was \u201ca joyful woman.\u201d<\/p>\n Use GenealogyBank<\/a> to find and document your family\u2019s stories so that they are told and remembered, just like Effie Mae\u2019s.<\/p>\n Note:<\/em><\/strong> FamilySearch International (FamilySearch.org<\/a>) and GenealogyBank are partnering to make over a billion records from recent and historical obituaries searchable online. The tremendous undertaking will make a billion records from over 100 million U.S. newspaper obituaries readily searchable online. The newspapers are from all 50 states and cover the period 1730 to the present.\u00a0 Find out more at: https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/family-search\/<\/a><\/p>\n Related Obituary Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n An article about Effie Mae Sanders, based on her obituary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,2020,1084],"class_list":["post-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-obituaries"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/illustration-0111-2017-featured-graphic-laughing-lady.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"obituary](\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gettysburg-times-newspaper-0306-2014-effie-sanders-obituary.png\")
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\nThe way this obituary characterized her life \u2013 capturing her persona and making us wish that we had known her too.<\/p>\n
\nEffie Mae Sanders (1930-2015) would have been 85 years old this month.<\/p>\n\n