Berrien-Ottawa County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thayer, Ernest Noyes May 6, 1906
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The Acorn (Three Oaks, Michigan), Thurs. May 11, 1906, page 3, column 1
The Acorn (Three Oaks, Michigan), Thurs. May 11, 1906, page 3, column 1

GREAT SORROW IN THREE OAKS

Ernest Noyes Thayer

	Ernest Noyes Thayer was born at Eastmanville, Ottawa county, Michigan in 1873,
to Mrs. and Mrs. Edwin Thayer, now of Grand Rapids.  He was graduated from the
Michigan Agricultural college in 1893, and afterwards attended the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia for two years.  For several years following
he practiced his profession, that of an illustrator, in Chicago, until failing
health compelled him to give up his work.
	In 1899, Mr. Thayer was united in marriage to Emma, only daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Owen Churchill of Three Oaks, and two children, both of whom died in
infancy, were born to his union.
	About a year ago Mr. and Mrs. Thayer went West in hopes that a change of
climate might benefit his health. They spent the summer in Jamestown, North
Dakota, and later went to Livingston, Montana, where the deceased passed away
May 6 of heart failure.  Life ebbed so slowly away that Mr. Thayer and his alert
little wife did not realize that the last moments were at hand, when after
preparations for retirement on the evening of the 6th, supported by his wife Mr.
Thayer walked to his bed and without relinquishing the embrace of the faithful
helpmeet, he laid over on the pillow and passed peacefully to the beyond.
	Besides the grief-stricken wife, who has drained the cup of sorrow over and
over again because of the entrance of death to her home, and father and mother,
the deceased leaves one sister, Miss Maude Thayer.
	The funeral services were held this afternoon at one o’clock in the home of Dr.
Churchill, Rev. E.D. Rundell of Jackson officiating.  Mesdames L. W. Hovey and
J. Edward Bommerscheim sang “lead Kindly Light”, and “Come Ye Disconsolate”. 
The floral tributes were beautiful, being a fitting attestation of the esteem in
which the deceased was held by the friends he had made during visits to Three Oaks.
	The remains were placed beside those of the two little daughters in the family
burial plot at beautiful Forest Lawn cemetery.




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