Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Carten, Catherine (Stone) 1917
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Lyons Herald, 26 Jul 1917

Mrs. Catherine Carten, mother of Mrs. Alice Caine, T.A. Carten, Richard Carten 
and Frank Carten of this city died at shortly after midnight, Friday night, 
after only a brief illness following three or four years of feeble health.  She 
would have been 77 years old in the course of another month.  Her husband, John 
Carten, died here three years ago.

Mrs. Carten’s maiden name was Catherine Stone.  She was born in Ontario, 
Canada, her parents being Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stone.  Mr. Stone was later an 
Easton township pioneer, and occupied at one time what is now the Wilbur Locke 
farm south of Belding.  Charles and Richard Stone, who were the members of a 
dry goods firm here a quarter century ago, were her brothers.  Charles Stone is 
still living in Hastings, Nebraska.

The marriage to Mr. Carten took place in Ontario.  In 1873 they moved to 
Cannonsburg, Mich., where they lived a few years, and then changed their 
residence to Belding, where they made their home for about 23 years.  Ten years 
ago they moved to Ionia, where their home has been ever since.  Since Mr. 
Carten’s death, Mrs. Carten has made her home with her children.  

There are nine children now living, two having died.  Mrs. Caine, Mrs. Jos. 
Wacha of Orleans, Mrs. Charles Krupp of Miriam, Miss Ella Carten of Detroit, 
T.A. Carten, Richard Carten, Frank Carten of Ionia, Charles Carten of Grand 
Rapids and John Carten of Chicago are the children living.  There are 25 
grandchildren.  Mrs. Krupp and Mrs. Wacha were with their mother at the time of 
her death.

The funeral services were attended on Sunday afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock at the 
home of her son, Thos. A. Carten, on West Main street, and at 3:00 o’clock at 
the Baptist church, where she worshipped so long and so devoutly.  The services 
at both places were conducted by Rev. E.E. Branch, and there was singing at the 
church by Mrs. Grace Cressy, Mrs. G.M. Phelps, and Messrs. Percy Angove and 
Herbert Cooper.  The attendance at the church was very large, and the set 
pieces of flowers which covered the casket and were set about the platform were 
of exceeding beauty in this midseason of floral elegance and profusion.  The 
carriers were the four sons and two sons-in-law, Thos. A., Frank A., Richard 
M., and Charles Carten, and James Wacha and Charles Krupp.  Burial was 
alongside the husband in Mount Olivet, by special dispensation of Bishop Foley 
procured by Thos. A. Carten, to carry out the expressed wish of his mother, 
that she might be laid at rest beside her husband gone before. – Ionia Standard.


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