One person that I know personally who died in 2009 was Sis. Myrtle Hall in the Cincinnati area. She died just a few days before her 99th birthday. The last time I saw her was when she was 84. Some couples had met for dinner at a restaurant and then went to the home of one of the couples. Sis Hall had raised him from a baby after his mother had died and he always considered her his mother. Sis. Hall was living with them. We talked with her and her mind was sharp. She remembered a sermon I had preached on a white stone in
Revelation 2:17 some years before and commented that she had never heard that verse preached on. She told us then that she had received the Holy Ghost Baptism 70 years ago at the age of 14 after a street meeting in Kentucky.
When I went to her funeral it was a time of singing and rejoicing because this old saint had gone to her reward.
On the little funeral cards they give out at funerals here giving the person's dates of birth and death, usually the 23rd Psalm is quoted or some times the prayer of St. Francis if the person is Roman Catholic. On Sis. Hall's card they had printed
1 Thess 4:13-18 because that had been her hope for over 80 years.