Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gibsone, Edith M. September 8, 1893
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Ionia Sentinel-Thurs. Sept. 14, 1893

SUDEEN DEATH OF AN IONIAN.
Miss Edith M. Gibsone Stricken with Heart Failure at Washington, D. C.

Friday Harry E. Spencer received the following dispatch from Washington at 7:30
o'clock: "Washington, D. C., Sept. 8, 1893. Edith taken suddenly ill last night with heart
failure, prepare for the worst." This was followed almost immediately by another:
"Washington, D. C. Sept. 8, 1893. Worst has come, Edith passed away quietly at 4:30
o'clock, nothing could save her."

One year ago the 12th day of the present month Miss Edith left Ionia for Washington
to visit Miss Katherine Spencer, and being offered a position as a compositor, she accepted.
her principal reason for this step was to stay where she could complete her musical
education by a  course in voice culture, and from time to time she wrote home to her parents
and sisters bright and hope full accounts of her success, the last being dated on
Tuesday  of this week.

She was very much loved by everyone in Ionia who knew her. Being of a bright and
happy disposition, and a good musician she attracted to herself a large number of warm
friends, and her sudden death was received with the deepest regret and sorrow. She was 24
years of age, and leaves behind her parents, three sisters and one brother, Mr. and Mrs.
Thos. Gibsone, Mrs. Harry E. Spencer, Misses Mabel and Blanche and Master Thomas Gibsone,
of this city.

Miss Edith M. Gibsone Laid to Rest in Highland Park

The funeral of the late Edith M. Gibsone was largely attended at 3 o'clock Tuesday
from St. Johns episcopal church, rev. Dr. Thomas officiating.

The sermon by Dr. Thomas was beautiful and touching and appropriate music was 
rendered by the choir.

Fred C. Sibley, John B. Hutchins Jr., Rodney Waterbury, Fred VanderHeyden, S. G.
Stone and Stanley Cornell acted a pall bearers. The floral decorations were profuse, and
gave but a slight token of the love and respect in which she was held, the following being a
partial list.  Panel, white asters-Mr and Mrs. Robt. Baerd.  Panel, white asters and cream
roses-Misses Stella Kimball, Belle Rowley and Mrs. Allen Kaufman. Panel, white rose
buds-Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Maxwell, Floral horse shoe, roses and Sringa-Misses Daisy Cornell and
Mabel Coe., Garland of white, yellow, cream and pink roses and asters-Messrs. W .L. Peck,
E. A. Buck, Fred C. Sibley, F. Reusch, A. G. Bedford, S. Cornell, S. G. Stone, M.
E.Simpson, R. Waterbury, F. H.VanderHeyden, John B. Hutchins., Panel, of white roses and
asters-"The Sentinel.", Panel, roses and asters, her sisters', Floral Lyre, pink and white
roses-from her friends in the office where she worked, Washington, D. C., Panel, Pink and cream
roses-Geo. H. Canfield, Washington, D. C., Panel, pink and yellow roses-Chas. W. Cotton, 
Washington, D. C., Panel, white roses and margurites-Mrs. Spencer and family, 
Washington. D. C., Panel, pink roses-Hugh M. Cline, Washington, D.C.. 

The remains were followed to Highland Park, the place of interment, by a large
concourse of friends.

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