Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bemis, Charles Lender 1917
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, 23 Aug 1917

Death of C.L. Bemis Wednesday
With Sorrow Ionia Learns of Demise of Former Lo__ Ed Superintendent.

Prof. Charles L. Bemis passed away Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at his home
in East Lansing after a year of poor health.  Capt. J.C. Taylor of this city
received a telegram late Wednesday containing the news of his demise.  The body
arrives here Friday at 11:30 and will be taken to Highland park at 1 o’clock for
burial without any services here.

Deceased was a native son of Ionia county, the old home having been in Easton. 
He graduated from the Michigan Agricultural college and taught at Portland
before coming to Ionia.  For 17 years he held the position of superintendent of
schools in this city, and no one ever connected with the schools in this
capacity ever left with a larger circle of warm and tried friends as Prof. Bemis.

He left Ionia about 10 years ago, since when his family home has been in East
Lansing.  Until a year ago he was at the head of the State Normal school of West
Virginia, his health giving out at the close of the school year, since which
time he retired from active work at East Lansing.

He was in Ionia visiting but two weeks ago, and J.C. Taylor and daughters
visited at his home in East Lansing a week before his death.

Besides the bereaved wife he is survived by a daughter, Bessie, who is head of
the domestic science department of the University of Minnesota, a son Elden, who
is in charge of the farm owned by his father and home one-half mile east of East
Lansing and a daughter Delia, who is an accomplished musician and has a large
class of pupils in Lansing.  W.W. Bemis of Ionia is a brother.

Mr. Bemis was a man of marked educational ability, leaving a fine record at
Ionia, and while in West Virginia more than doubled the size of the school he
supervised.  He was a man of wide sympathies, absolutely honest, devoted to his
vocation and untiring in its pursuit.  Simple yet broadminded, he lived not only
for himself, but for his friends and the betterment of mankind – a man whose
death means to many the loss of a ___ .


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