Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hunter, Carrie Hersey (Spencer) (Mather) 1930
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Lake Odessa Wave, 20 Mar 1930

Early Resident of Lake O. Buried Sat.

Mrs. Carrie Mather-Hunter for a long time an inmate of the Soldier’s Home and 
for some time in the hospital there, died Thursday morning and the body was 
brought to Lake Odessa in the afternoon.

Mrs. Hunter was one of the first residents of this village and was a member of 
the Methodist church here almost from its beginning.

She lost a son by drowning in the lake here (one of the very few local children 
to die that way) in the early years of the village history.  She has a daughter 
living in Colorado and Mrs. George Cheetham is a niece.

The funeral was held at the Methodist church Saturday forenoon at 10:30, burial 
was in Lakeside cemetery.  Rev. O. F. Bulman preached and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. 
Goodemoot and Mrs. Thomas Johnson furnished the music.
Obituary

Carrie Hersey Spencer was born of pioneer parents at Smyrna, Mich., January 1, 
1848, where she resided until the removed to Saranac, where in 1867 she was 
united in marriage with Henry Mather.  To this union were born three children, 
two sons and a daughter.  The eldest son, Ralph E. Mather of Fort Logan, Col., 
the only survivor.

Mr. Mather passed away when the children were small and Mrs. Mather made her 
home with her father and mother Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Spencer, plying her needle 
for many years as a means of livelihood.

In 1884 she came to Bonanza, at the solicitation of her girlhood friend, Mrs. 
Eliza Crane, and opened a dressmaking shop, working there until the new town, 
Lake Odessa, was started in 1887.  Then she and her parents moved to the new 
town and built a small house where they resided until the death of Mr. Spencer 
and later of her mother.

She continued on alone until 1908 when she was united in marriage with Henry S. 
Hunter and for 16 years they lived in the cozy little home on 5th avenue until 
the death of Mr. Hunter in 1924.  Left alone, Mrs. Hunter faced life bravely 
and cheerfully.

She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church where she was a ready and 
efficient worker, teaching a class in Sunday school and helping in the Ladies’ 
Aid.  She was a member of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary society, the Woman’s 
Christian Temperance union, and an early member of the Lake Odessa Woman’s 
club.  She had a ready pen and wrote many papers of merit for these societies.  
It is a well known fact that she seldom missed occupying her pew in church, 
until four years ago when she had a severe fall, striking her head on the ice, 
since which time her health failed, but almost to the end she retained her 
natural wit.  Only last Sunday, in reply to a question asked by her niece, she 
gave a witty reply.

Her faith in blessed life beyond the grave was strong, and many times during 
the last months she has so expressed herself to her niece.

The son R. E. Mather and the niece Mrs. G. H. Cheetham are the only near 
relatives surviving.


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