Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hawley, Bernice Adell (Crumb) 1911
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, March 2,1911

Bernice Adell Crumb was born in the township of Plainfield, in the County of
Otsego, and State of New York, on December 16th, 1851.  She passed away on the
25th day of February, 1911.  Her parents were Charles Crumb and Lydia L. (Dewey)
Crumb.  Her ancestors on both sides were pioneer residents in Otsego county, and
both families have a very numerous membership, not only in Otsego, but also in
the adjoining counties and elsewhere.

She was educated in the primary school at Plainfield Center and in the old
Academy at West Winfield, an adjoining village.

Her father, who was a well-to-do farmer, sold his property in Plainfield in
1869, and moved with his family to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where they remained
for a time, and finally came to Michigan.

She was married to R.A. Hawley at Saranac, Michigan, on the 7th day of November,
1881.  They continued to reside at Saranac until the 1st day of October, 1893,
when they came to Ionia, where he had in May, 1890, opened a law office and
engaged in the practice of his profession.  Since first coming to Ionia they
have continued to make this city their home city.

She united with the M.E. church at Saranac in the year 1891, and has ever since
been a faithful and consistent member thereof.

Her health has been poor for a long period of time, in fact, has been in a
precarious condition for several years, yet because of her cheerful and happy
demeanor, her quiet and uncomplaining disposition and her hopeful and optimistic
temperament, but few, and perhaps none but her husband, realized it.  She loved
life.  She enjoyed the world in which she lived.  All nature appealed to her
most strongly, and the ability to appreciate its harmony and grandeur was
developed in her to a high degree.  She delighted greatly, almost rapturously,
in the beauty of the flower and of the field, the forest and the stream.

Notwithstanding her ill health she enjoyed living to the last moment before the
final summons came, and was looking forward, literally counting the days, to the
time when opening spring will again clothe forest and field with a robe of
verdure and of flowers.

Suddenly the call came, and within the hour she passed out of life and away from
this world of time and sense.  The suddenness of her passing makes her demise
peculiarly sad to her friends, but the memory of her many generous and kindly
deeds and her constant acts of unobtrusive service remain to comfort them.

She was a faithful, helpful and devoted wife, a loyal and enduring friend, a
home maker and a house keeper second to none.

She leaves a large circle of devoted friends, whose kindly acts and appreciative
and sympathetic words have afforded solace to her immediate family and relatives
in this hour of bereavement and loss.

Generous and noble-hearted loved one, we will hold your memory in kindly and
sacred keeping until the day dawns and the shadows flee away.


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