Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hawley, Ruth (Lockwood) (Pittman) 1913
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Unidentified Publication, Nov 1913

Death of Mrs. R.A. Hawley.

In Hospital at Midnight from Operation Monday Afternoon

Ionians were shocked this morning by the intelligence that Mrs. R.A. Hawley died
at midnight at the hospital in Ann Arbor after the preformance of an operation
at half-past four in the afternoon.  She had been in the hospital since Monday
of last week, and had shown sufficient signs of improvement to encourage the
physicians to hope for her recovery from the surgery - hopes which were quickly
shattered, as she scarcely rallied at all, only faintly recognizing some of
those about her.

Mrs. Hawley was Ruth Lockwood before her marriage.  She was born in Rollin,
Lenawee county, September 2, 1871, and was educated there.  Her high school
education she received in Hudson, and was married afterward to Wm. Pittman, who
died after only a few years of married life.  Mrs. Pittman then taught school. 
She studied at the State Normal in Ypsilanti, and graduated there.  She then
taught in Wayne and came here to take charge of the Ionia Normal in 1907,
teaching here three years.  In 1910 she went to the Detroit University School,
where she remained for two years, leaving in June 1912, to teach in summer
school at Ypsilanti.  In August, 1912, she was married to R.A. Hawley of this
city and has lived here ever since.

Her illness dates from Sept. 20 of this fall, though headaches and other
symptoms preceded it for about a year.  In September her illness was so severe
that her life was despaired of, but she recovered sufficiently to be removed to
Ann Arbor, where it was hoped that an operation to remove the tumor on her brain
might meet with success, but the attempt failed.

Mrs. Hawley was a woman of unusual brilliance and intellectual attainments,
whose strong mind and congenial personality will be greatly missed in Ionia
society.

She is survived by her husband, her father, Geo. H. Lockwood of Rollin, her
brother, Geo. H. Lockwood, Jr., and sister, Mrs. Snyder, both of the same place,
and another sister, Mrs. Banger of Toledo, Ohio.

The funeral will be private, at the residence on Washington street Thursday
afternoon.  It was the request of Mrs. Hawley that no flowers should be sent
after her death, and that her funeral should be a private one.  Friends are
therefore asked not to send flowers.


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