Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Clute, Ellen October 1925
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, October 15, 1925
Mrs. Ellen Clute, 80, widow of Attorney Lemuel Clute, life-long resident of 
Ionia county, died suddenly at her home in Ionia township Tuesday evening.  
She had been an invalid for three years and was found dead by her daughter, 
Miss Lucy Clute, who had been absent form the room only a few moments.

The funeral will be held from the late home Saturday morning at 10 o’clock 
with Rev. W. F. Kendrick, pastor of the Methodist church, of which she has 
been a member since 13 years old, in charge.  Interment will be made at 
Highland Park cemetery.

All of her life was spent on the farm on which she died, having been born in a 
log house, just north of the present homestead.  Her husband was a prominent 
attorney here at one time and practiced with. C. Sessions and Judge V. H. 
Smith.

She is survived by five children; W. K. Clute of Grand Rapids; Miss Lucy 
Clute, at home; Richard C. Clute, New York city; Robert L. Clute, Grand Bay, 
Alabama; Monroe C. Clue, Detroit; brother, Donald McPherson, Washington, D. 
C.; three half-sisters, Mrs. Katherine Gundrum and Miss Mary McPherson of 
Ionia, and Miss Pauline McPherson of Detroit.


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