Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Downing, Bessie Jane March 9, 1918
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Ionia Daily Sentinel - Monday, April 8, 1918

Bessie Jane Downing was born at West Sebewa, Ionia county Michigan, Aug. 20, 
1884 and resided here with her parents until her call from this life which came 
March 9, 1918.

Early in life she was converted and gave her life to Christ, being baptized in 
the Christian faith and it can be said that the principal events of the 
intervening years between this and the one of her death were periods devoted in 
administering to the wants and needs of others and of many deeds of sacrifice 
and love consistent with the Christian life. 

Early in the year 1812 she contracted a severe cold which left a lingering 
cough and later developed into tuberculosis, of which she has been a patient 
sufferer. A year spent in a western climate and Many  months at a sanatorium 
failed to check the advance of this dread malady.

At many times during these years she was not idle but industrious and beyond 
her strength ready to lighten the labor of those with whom her life was cast.

In May 1817 she was made to know that her condition was hopeless and returned 
to her home.  

Additional Comments:
Lakeside cemetery - #7-887

b. Aug. 20, 1884 Mi. - dau. of Samuel Downing & Elizabeth

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