Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Goolthrite, Emma Caroline (Smith) 1948
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Carson City Gazette, 29 Apr 1948

Emma Goolthrite, 92, of Hubbardston Passes Sunday.

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Goolthrite, Hubbardston, were held from the
Hubbardston Methodist church Tuesday afternoon with interment in the West Side
cemetery.  Rev. Park Newcombe, pastor of the church, officiated.  Arrangements
were in charge of the Burns Funeral Home.

Emma Caroline Goolthrite, daughter of William and Orilla Welles Smith, was born
April 8, 1856 in Allen, Allegany county, N. Y., and died in the early morning of
April 25 at the age of 92 years and 17 days.  When she was eight years old, her
parents moved to Michigan and settled on the farm which is still owned by
members of the Smith family.  Her father also owned a tract of virgin pine where
Stanton is now located.

She attended high school in Hubbardston and Maple Rapids.  At the age of 14
years she began to teach school and continued to go to school and teach until
her marriage and for short periods afterward.  It was a great disappointment to
her that financial difficulties because of the early death of her father
prevented her from having more formal education, but she studied by herself
until she was able to acquire a first grade teachers certificate of which few
were granted in the county.

On October 15, 1878, she was married to Myron C. Goolthrite.  In 1928 the
community celebrated their golden wedding anniversary and they lacked but a few
weeks of having been married 67 years when Mr. Goolthrite died in July of 1945.
 Her entire life since marriage has been spent on the same farm.

Mrs. Goolthrite was active in her church as long as her health permitted.  She
was one of a group of women who started the public library in Hubbardston and
helped in the selection of the books as long as she was able.  She taught a
class of girls in Sunday school for many years and served as Sunday school
superintendent for some time.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Mabel and Charles Langdon; two
grand-daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Yates of Midland and Mrs. Louise Brown of Detroit,
three great-grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. LaVerne Rubin of Burbank, Calif.;
several nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends.


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