Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Eldred, Ermaine Mary January 25, 1951
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Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard - Tues. Jan. 30, 1951


 Final rites for Mrs. Foss O. Eldred were conducted by Dr. Paul Stewart at the 
Stone-Kauffman funeral home Sunday afternoon. It was a very large funeral with 
chairs placed downstairs and upstairs for the more than 200 who attended.

 Mrs. Eldred died a the Ionia Convalescent home at 1:20 p.m. Thursday, January 
25, after a long illness.

 A veritable bower of flowers surrounded the casket. Baskets and wreaths from 
friends and from many organization of which both Mr. and Mrs. Eldred were 
members and from state officials were there. Among them were floral tributes 
from the Order of Eastern Star, the White Shrine of Jerusalem, Samantha Wright 
chapter, Past Matrons, the Elks ladies bowling team, the Elks lodge, the Ionia 
County Republican committee, Saladin Shrine of Grand Rapids, the Ionia County 
National Bank, the Ionia State Savings Bank, and the office of the Michigan 
attorney general at Lansing.

In charge of flowers were Mrs. Blanche Pierce, Mrs. Martin McNamara, Mrs. 
Carrie Baker, Mrs. Frank Miller and Mrs. Harold Wilder.

 From a temporary pulpit. Dr. Stewart said, in part, in his sermon;

"In this life we have many attachments. The greater our sense of belonging, the 
greater our sense of loss and sorrow when that relationship is broken by death."

"We belong to our friends and they belong to us. Our of that experience of 
belonging there is revealed the beauty and value of friendship."

"We belong to our loved ones and they belong to us. From this sense of 
belonging a house becomes a home, with warmth and love, expressing the virtues 
of understanding and devotion together with the fine art of appreciation. All 
of these qualities were so fully expressed in the life of this wife and mother."

"We belong to God. He is our creator. He is our heavenly Father. From this 
sense of belonging to God and God belonging to us there arises the reality of 
faith and trust and hope, making us the recipients of eternal truths and divine 
promises. Because of this acknowledged kinship with the Eternal, it really 
means something to us when we hear the words of the Master- In my Father's 
house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you"

 The funeral sermon closed with the reading of the 23rd Psalm.

 Bearers were Fred B. Post, Harry Gemuend, Martin McNamara, George Coe, Jr., 
Dr. Paul Stamsen, Jr. and Harold Wilder.

 Interment was made in the family lot in North Plains cemetery.

 Among the many attending the services from out of town were; Mr. E.C. Knott, 
Mrs. Rolland Longacre and Miss Evangeline Eldred of Benton Harbor; Mrs. 
Elizabeth Hansen of Greenville; William Gilmore and Walter Taylor of the 
attorney general's office, and Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court John R. 
Dethmers of Lansing; Judge and Mrs. W.E. Rasmussen and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 
Montgomery of Stanton; Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper, Mrs. Alta Havaland, Mrs. 
Mellison Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Worthy, Mr. and Mrs. Carter Churchill of 
Belding; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Pierce of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Hayes and Mr. 
and Mrs. L.H. Eckley of Muir; William Toan of Portland; and Mrs. Alta 
Pritchard, Mrs. B.F. Dalzell, Mrs. Theron Gray and Mrs. H.F. Gardner of Lyons.

Additional Comments:
Mrs. Foss O. Eldred

Funeral, Sunday, January 25, 1951

N. Plains cemetery sec. 3-278

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