Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Crane, Avis Helen (Coville) 1920
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Belding Banner, 17 Mar 1920

The funeral of Mrs. Avis Crane was held at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary E. 
H. Coville, last week Tuesday where she was born and spent her childhood days.  
Many old friends and neighbors were in attendance and the flowers and floral 
offerings from sympathizing friends and orders were most beautiful.

Rev. W. J. Rooks conducted the service and Mrs. O. N. Wilton sang, accompanied 
by Mrs. Byron Cook.

The interment was made in the Otisco cemetery by the side of her father, Dr. 
Palmer Coville.  The bearers were members of her High school graduating class.

Avis Helen Coville was born April 30th, 1879 in Belding, Mich.

She was educated in the public schools of this city and in 1899 entered the 
conservatory of music in Olivet college where she spent two years.  She then 
entered the kindergarten training school of Grand Rapids.  She taught in the 
Alexander street school also in the rural schools of Kiddville, Chadwick and 
Miriam.  Was married in 1906 to Irving Crane of Stanwood, Mich.  6 children 
were born to them, 2 having passed beyond. 

She was a devoted mother, her children and home came first.  She expressed a 
wish the funeral services should be like her father’s, Dr. Coville and was 
fully carried out, the same pieces were sung as at his funeral.


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