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Mrs. Margaret L. Gruesbeck, wife of George Gruesbeck of Ithaca, Mich., was returning with her husband from Florida and spending a few days in Tennessee, when without a warning, a heart attack caused her sudden death, April 9, 1948. Her… Continue Reading →

Amy Rogers Evans, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Rogers was born in Gratiot County, Mich., June 2, 1873 and quietly passed away at the home of her son Albert, in Cedar Lake, July 14, 1948. Her early childhood was spent… Continue Reading →

Sunday noon, Aug. 8, 1948, Elder Leonard W. Light passed from this life to await the call of Jesus. Born January 21, 1891 at Southampton, England, he joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church at that place at the age of 17…. Continue Reading →

Miss Minnie Mellinger was born seventy-six years and ten days before she was taken by death Sept. 24, 1948. She had lived in Gratiot Co., Michigan, all her life, the most of the time in or near Ithaca. The last… Continue Reading →

Just eight months after her husband was taken from her by death, following a car accident, Mrs. Dora Ellen Sanford quietly passed away on Oct. 18, 1948, at the same home in North Shade Twp., Gratiot Co., Mich., where she… Continue Reading →

Mrs. Fred White, nee Krisher, was born in Gratiot county, Mich. Nov. 19, 1869 and passed this life at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. Holliday, Ionia, Mich., Feb. 17, 1949. She was affiliated with the Adventist church of… Continue Reading →

Verne B. Bennett was born in Gratiot County, Mich. March 31, 1880. He was the son of the late Joseph and Alice Bennett. He was a life long resident of the community near Carson City. Mich. Those left to mourn… Continue Reading →

Mary Irene, daughter of Giles and Sarah Lovewell McKeon was born August 14, 1867 in Brant, Saginaw Co., Mich. and died April 21, 1951, at Alma, Mich. At sixteen she was left an orphan, and made her home with an… Continue Reading →

Cordelia Hankey (nee Stevenson) was born in Washington Twp., Gratiot Co., Mich,, July 15, 1879, and passed to her rest Sept. 23, 1951 at her home in Eureka, Mich. In 1907 she was married to Edward Hankey. Sister Hankey had… Continue Reading →

Howard Oscar Butler was born Jan. 29, 1887 three-miles east of Sumner, Mich. At twenty years of age he married Nettie Mae Bangs. They experienced conversion and hecame members of the Sumner SDA Church. Later Brother Butler became farm manager… Continue Reading →