Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Derthick, Charles B. 1904
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Ionia Daily Standard, 27 Dec 1904

The funeral of Charles B. Derthick was attended from the home on Monday 
afternoon, and the large attendance of the immediate neighbors was noticeable 
and significant, as were also the many flowers which were all about the 
casket.  The service was begun by singing by the quartette composed of Mrs. 
Brock, Mrs. Thane Benedict, Mr. Thane Benedict, Mr. Lee Yates, who also sung 
after the reading of the scripture lesson and at the close of the discourse.

The funeral discourse was by the Rev. W.H.B. Urch of Albion, long an intimate 
and staunch personal friend of the deceased.  The tribute of the speaker to his 
friend gone on before, was couched in fair and earnest words, and springing 
from the heart, it was frank and forceful in its effect.  The discourse was 
novel (if the term is permissible) in the spirit in which its truths, full of 
moral uplift, were presented.

While deceased was more or less active and a favored favorite in fraternity 
circles, at the request of the bereaved wife and daughter, there was no attempt 
at the usual display, a committee of six, only, representing the Royal Arcanum, 
of which he was the grand secretary.  This detail was composed of Brothers 
Montgomery Webster, F.C. Miller, Abraham DeKwack, Emory More, Frank L. Taylor, 
and Fred J. Whitney. 

The carriers, also, were from the membership of the Royal Arcanum, as follows: 
F.A. Stiven, Edward R. Balley, Fred Cutler Jr., Frank E. Ward, Milton M. 
McGeary and Wm. K. Clute.

There were also present a delegation of ten of the past grand and grand 
officers of the Royal Arcanum, as follows: Past grand Regents J.R. Johnson of 
Lapeer, H.C. Hedges of North Lansing, John DeViser of Kalamazoo, D.R. Crampton 
of Monroe, Grand Regent S.S. Babcock of Detroit, Grand treasurer E.C. Roberts 
of Lapeer, State Medical Examiner J.H. Wellings of Lansing, Grand Trustee W.A. 
Price of Lansing, Deputy J.H. Eckstine of Jackson, and Walter S. Campbell of 
Detroit.

Others present from out of the city were: Byron Derthick, father, from 
Hillsdale, Mrs. G.A. Lacey of Angola, Ind., and Mr. and Mrs. Lenardson of 
Pittsfield, Mich., the ladies being sisters; Messrs, A.L. and D.H. Bryan of 
Claire, brothers of Mrs. Derthick; Thos G. Amphlett of Chicago, cousin; John B. 
Amphlett of Adrian, cousin, Joseph W. Amphlett of Napoleon, and John W. 
Amphlett of Detroit, uncles; Mrs. Mary R. Tubbs of Chesaning, P.G. Matron of 
the Order Eastern Star; Mrs. Chapman of Chesaning, Miss Nellie Smith of Ada; 
Mr. Frank Bryant of Grand Rapids.

Mr. Derthick carried $3,000 of fraternal insurance and $7,000 of old line.


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