Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hutchins, Charlotte E. 1893
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, December 8, 1893

Mrs. Charlotte E. Hutchins, widow of the late John B. Hutchins, closed her 
eyes in death Friday p.m., shortly before four o’clock at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. Robt. Beard, Lafayette street.  She was nearing her sixtieth 
year in a life which shone resplendent with kindly acts performed.  Her last 
illness was a long one and severe, but through it all, in her conscious 
moments, there was a true Christian resignation that abided quietly for the 
curtains to be drawn which divide time and eternity.

The funeral of Mrs. Charlotte E. Hutchins was attended from the residence of 
her daughter, Mrs. Robt. Beard, Monday afternoon at two o’clock.  Rev. F.O. 
Dickey, of the First Baptist church, was the officiating clergyman.  He used 
as the basis for his discourse, this portion of the 18th verse of I Samuel, 
II: “And thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.”  He presented 
some sweet and pivotal thoughts upon the influences of motherhood, which was 
most instructively the consolation of this theme.

Applied to the busy and social sides of her life, the friends of the quarter 
century up to ten years ago, will recall a purity and self-sacrifice that 
established a warrant for the text.  She lived and died at peace with the 
world.

Rev. Alfred Cornell, for many years her pastor, in the early days when she was 
an ardent and active worker in church affairs, assisted in the services, and 
spoke most tenderly of the deceased, whom he knew so well.

Misses Kate Benedict and Pearl Freeman sang the selections signified by the 
deceased in her lifetime.  The bearers were her two sons and two sons-in-law.  
The floral tributes were many, and most beautiful were the designs.  The 
remains were conveyed to Highland Park cemetery, where they were placed in the 
family lot beside those of the husband who preceded her.



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