Charlevoix County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Carey, Marion C. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn King msmarly@yahoo.com April 23, 2016, 7:01 pm Cemetery: Brookside Cemetery Name: Marion C. Carey Date Of Photograph: August 21, 2012 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/charlevoix/photos/tombstones/brookside/carey186744gph.jpg Image file size: 102.4 Kb Marion C. Carey 1893-1953 OBITUARY Last Tribute Paid Here To Mrs. Leo Carey Relatives and friends gathered at the Christ Episcopal church here Monday to pay a last tribute to Mrs. Leo Carey, 59, lifelong resident of this community, who died Friday at the Charlevoix Hospital while she had been a patient for a week. No eulogies were given at the service for such is not the custom of the church. It might be said, however, that in her own quiet way, Mrs. Carey, the mother of seven children, came to personify all that the word motherhood means. Like so many mothers of large families, her family was her career and though she had other interests, her husband and children always came first in her life. She became known as the mother of the fabulous Carey family but her way of life never changed. She continued to make her house a home and to welcome friends, humble and great, in a gracious manner which endeared her to everyone. She watched her family grow to adulthood and gain careers of their own. The watching was climaxed by the success of her twins, Bob and Bill, who played end positions on Michigan State college's greatest football team She stood proudly by as honors were heaped on Bob as he became captain of the Spartan football squad in 1951, the same year he won All-American honors, and later as he went on to play professional football with the Los Angeles Rams. A native of Charlevoix, the former Marion C. Emery was born Aug. 15, 1893. In 1913 she was married to Thomas Leo Carey at Traverse City. She was a member of Christ Episcopal church and as a member of its parish devoted much time and effort to church work. She was also a past matron of the Charlevoix chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, a member of the local Past Matrons Club and also the Tri-City Past Matrons club and the Shakespeare Study Club. Besides her husband, she is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Stewart E. Coleman of this city; six sons. Charles of Cheboygan; Keith of Midland who made athletic history at Alma College in the early 1940's; Donald recently of Mason who is spending the summer here before going to Marysville; Thomas of this city; Robert who recently graduated from Michigan State college and who will enter the army in August as a reserve officer and Lieut. William who will be stationed at Presidio in San Francisco after completing training at Fort Benning, Ga. She also leaves 13 grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Stevens of Mullikan and Mrs. Lillian Preston of Glendale, Calif.; a brother, Charles H. Emery of Glendale, Calif.; a half brother, Winfield Emery and step-mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Emery of Lowell, Mass. The Rev. Carl A. Hoch of Emmanuel church of Petoskey and the Rev. Richard Lintner officiated at the funeral service at the Christ Episcopal church. Burial was in Brookside cemetery. The body was a: the Pontius Chapel until the hour of the funeral. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/charlevoix/photos/tombstones/brookside/carey186744gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb