Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Otto Keith & Royal Milton September 17, 1907
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Lake Odessa Wave - Fri. September 21, 1907

TWO BROTHERS CALLED HOME

One of the saddest funerals that has been held here was the double funeral of 
two little brothers Otto Keith and Royal Milton, little sons of Mr and 
Mrs.Milton Brown at the U.B. church Wednesday afternoon.

They had been sick about a week of acute dysentery and all done that loving 
hands could do yet they succumbed to its awful ravages; Otto dying at one 
o'clock and Royal at eleven P.M. Monday. Otto was 4 yrs, 1 mo, and 22 days old 
and Royal 2 yrs, 2 mo. and 10 days.

They will be greatly missed in their house and by their playmates as they were 
wide awake and active children yet so patient and quiet in their sickness.

The sorrowing parents are now childless having laid away their four children, 
Clyde, the oldest dying of pneumonia at age of five months at Vanderbuilt and 
another son, when a few days old.

Mr and Mrs Brown, who was formally Miss Ruby Davis, have the heartfelt sympathy 
of the entire community in their great loss.
  Longfellow the great lover of children had truthfully said----
"There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
  And with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at breath,
  And the flowers that grow between,"
"And the mother gave to tears and pain
  The flowers she most did love
She knew she would find them all again.
  In the fields of light above."
  Not lost but gone before.

Their pastor, Rev. Crites officiated . Interment in Lakeside cemetery.

Those from away who attended the funeral were Mr and Mrs Cyrus Brown of Grand 
Raids, Clayton Davis of Harbor Beech, Mr and Mrs Jake Miers of Lowell and Milton 
Brown's sister and  husband of Alma.
                                  Woodbury Correspondent


Additional Comments:
Lakeside Cem.#5-570

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