Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Heath, Caroline S. (Tower) 1931
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 17 Aug 1931

Death Takes Mrs. Wm. B. Heath Monday

Prominent Ionia Woman Succumbs in Blodgett Hospital Following a Six Week’s Illness.

Death came to Mrs. William B. Heath at 10:30 Monday morning in Blodgett
hospital, Grand Rapids, where she had been a patient for the past six weeks. 
Five weeks ago she underwent a serious operation, and while her condition gave
hopes for recovery for some time thereafter, for the past week she had failed
rapidly until the end.  Mr. Heath, who spent Saturday in Grand Rapids, and
returned to his home here Sunday night, was called back to the hospital at 6
o’clock Monday morning because of his wife’s critical condition.

The illness which proved to be Mrs. Heath’s last, was also virtually the first
severe sickness she had suffered in many years.  She had always enjoyed
excellent health, and was never incapacitated by illness.  At the time she went
to Grand Rapids she was in apparently good health, and it was because of an
ailment of which she had no suspicion that she submitted to operative measures
at that time.  At the time of her admission to the hospital such termination of
her long and active life was unthought of.

Mrs. Heath had been virtually all her life a resident of Ionia, a descendent of
pioneer families, and prominent in all activities in her home city.  No resident
of Ionia was better known or had a wider circle of acquaintanceship.  She was
the daughter of Angelo E. and Abbie Tower, and was the last member of her
parents’ families to die.  Ever zealous in the social life of the community Mrs.
Heath always had taken a prominent part in the affairs of her church, and of the
activities of women’s organizations with which she was affiliated, and in which
she was a leader.  She was a lifelong member of St. Johns Episcopal Church.

For about two years she [unreadable] with her parents, a resident of Detroit
more than 40 years ago, but aside from that brief interlude her lifetime had
been spent in the city of her birth.

Mrs. Heath’s childhood was spent in the Tower homestead across Lafayette street
from her present home, and where she was born January 21, 1867.  She was united
in marriage to William B. Heath May 6, 1890.

Surviving are the husband, two daughters, Mrs. Adah H. Owsley and Mrs. Margaret
H. Webber, both of Ionia, and a grandson, William G. Owsley.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 o’clock Wednesday morning from the
home, 126 Lafayette street, conducted by Rev. Fr. Edwin G.White, rector of St.
Johns Episcopalian church.  Interment will be in Highland Park cemetery.


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