Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Haight, Annita Alma 1923
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, January 29, 1923

“Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God; believe also in Me.  In my 
Father’s house are many mansions.  If it were not so, I would have told you.  
I go to prepare a place for you; I will come again, and receive you unto 
Myself, that where I am there ye may be also.”

These are the opening verses of the fourteenth chapter of St. John, the 
Scripture and text which were read Saturday afternoon by the Rev. Joseph Green 
at the double funeral of Mrs. Chandler Haight and William P. Fanning at the 
Methodist Episcopal church.

“Life which we value highly is transient.  We cannot tell when the thread 
which holds it here will be broken.” Said Rev. Green.  “This is not an 
ordinary funeral.  The entire community is sharing with you the best they can 
the sorrow which you have been called upon to bear.  What would this life be 
if Jesus had not taught us the ideal of immortality that the grave does not 
end all?  We have learned that as the body goes back to the dust the spirit 
returns to God, who gave it.

“A good life as has been lived by this father and this wife, mother and 
sister, is worth while to the individual.  A good life is in harmony with 
God’s great law.  These two noble lives are pure and wholesome in the 
community where they have lived, in their home, and in the church, where they 
have served their creator faithfully.  A good life is worth while for the 
memory it leaves after your death.

When we think of Mr. Fanning in the years to come we will think of a good 
father who lived a good life in his home, his church, and his community.

“In years to come when we are thinking of Mrs. Haight we will think of the 
supreme mother and the devoted wife who lived a good life in everything she 
did for the community.

“As this great sorrow has come into our community may we all try and remember 
to be just a little more Christianlike and a little more kind and just to 
those we see in sorrow and trouble,” said Rev. Green in closing.

Both Mrs. Haight and Mr. Fanning were laid to rest among a profuse display of 
beautiful floral offerings, showing the high respect in which they were held 
by their many friends.  The flowers were in charge of Miss Lillie Young, Mrs. 
R. A. Colwell, Mrs. O. W. Slocum, and Miss Gertrude Zank.

The bearers for Mrs. Haight were Dr. Lee Haight, Wallace Haight, Frank 
Kephart, Horatio Parmalee, Herbert Everest, and Nelson Powell.

The bearers for Mr. Fanning were A. H. Tuttle, R. A. Hawley, Dr. F. M. Marsha, 
H. E Kidder, O. W. Slocum, and R. A. Colwell.

The following were here from away to attend the funeral services: Mrs. Edith 
Parmalee and son Horatio, of Flint; Mrs. Lena Burgeon, of Charlevoix; Mr. and 
Mrs. Frank Kephart and daughter Patricia of Traverse City (Mrs. Parmlalee, 
Mrs. Burgeon and Mrs. Kephart are sisters of Mrs. Haight); Mrs. E. L. Haight, 
Miss Loessa Haight, Dr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Haight, of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. 
Herbert Everest and daughter Janette, of Royal Oak; Dr. and Mrs. Lee Haight, 
of Belleview; Miss May Alexander, of Detroit; and Mrs. George Percival, and 
Mrs. Camerson, of Stanton.

The bodies of Mrs. Haight and Mr. Fanning were placed in the Schmolz vault at 
Highland Park.

Members of Queen Esther chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, of which Mrs. 
Haight held the office of conductress, and in which she was an active member, 
attended the service in a body.


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