Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Jerusha 1930
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, May 8, 1930


The grim reaper entered three local homes during the past week and removed two 
well known people, while the third, an aged lady whose residence here had been 
somewhat short, was known to a lesser number of local people.

Mrs. Jerusha Brown, aged 84 years, passed away Tuesday afternoon in the city 
hospital, where she had been cared for for some time past, following an illness 
which came as a result of a stroke of paralysis several months ago.  Mrs. Brown 
was a well known woman.  For years she had been almost stone deaf and lived 
with a small foster-daughter, Myrtle, in a small home on Little Avenue.  She 
was a breeder of Mexican hairless and Chihuahua dogs and a visit at her homer 
always brought a pack of the tiny animals to the door.  Her trade was over a 
wide territory and the dogs were shipped to distant points all over the 
country, with the animals bringing relatively high prices, some of them ranging 
as high as $150.

Mrs. Brown has lived in this city for a number of years.  She came here from 
Chicago, where she had been raising dogs for a long time and from where her 
business in this line followed her.  According to letters which she received 
from other breeders of the small animals in other parts of the country and from 
people who were placing orders for the animals, Mrs. Brown was considered as an 
authority on the breeding and raising of these dogs, the original strain of 
which came from Mexico.

Funeral services are being held this morning at 10 o’clock from the Fales 
Funeral Home, with Rev. H. S. Ellis officiating and with Rev. L. D. Bodine 
offering a prayer.  Burial in Otisco cemetery.

The only relatives to survive Mrs. Brown are a cousin, Mrs. William Foss, of 
this city, and the foster daughter, Miss Mildred Brown, who had lived with the 
aged lady since coming to Belding.  Miss Mildred will remain under the care of 
Miss Mary Bracker, superintendent of nurses at the city hospital and will 
eventually take a course in nursing.


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