Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hearsey, Winifred 1930
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 10 Jun 1930

Cards written by Miss Winifred Hearsey from Ann Arbor, and received by friends
in Ionia Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning were followed by a brief telegram
telling of her unexpected death in the University hospital.  Miss Hearsey had
gone there three weeks ago Thursday for an operation to remove the cataract from
her eye, and her messages to Ionia conveyed the news that she had made a most
satisfactory recovery, and had planned to return home this week.  About the time
that the funeral party was leaving the hospital for Ionia cards were pouring
into the hospital from Ionia friends who had planned a shower for her to reach
her before she returned home.

Miss Hearsey was born in Ionia March 4, 1863 and had lived her life here with
the exception of the brief periods while she was away during the millinery
seasons working at her trade, that of a milliner.  She was of a retiring
disposition, but possessed a wealth of friends.

She was a member of the First Baptist church and devoted to its auxiliaries, but
the past few years the care of her mother during her feeble years was her
paramount interest.  About the time that her mother died Miss Hearsey’s eyesight
began failing and the success of the operation performed a few days ago caused
her to look happily forward to her return to Ionia and her friends.

A brother W.H. Hearsey East Main street is her only near relative.

The body was brought to Ionia Tuesday afternoon but the funeral arrangements had
not been made.

Miss Hearsey was a daughter of Roscoe A. Hearsey, and a grand-daughter of Mason
and Caroline Cornell Hearsey Ionia pioneers.  Mason Hearsey settled on part of
what is now the Babcock farm west of Ionia and in an early day and the family
were for many years among the prominent and respected residents of early Ionia.

[Transcriber's Note:  There is a notation on the obituary card that she was
buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.]


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