Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ireland, Agnes Rosamond (Spencer) 1935
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Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, 2 Dec 1935

Funeral services for Mrs. Agnes Rosamond Ireland, 70, wife of Charles A. 
Ireland, prominent Ionia hardware dealer and former president of the state and 
national hardware association, will be held from the residence, 218 East 
Washington street, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. H. A. Simpson, of 
Ionia officiating.  Burial will be at Highland Park cemetery.

Mrs. Ireland died Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock two hours after she was 
stricken with cerebral hemorrhage.  She had been ordered to bed by her 
physician several weeks ago because of a heart ailment and had recently become 
active again in the church and social activities with which she had long been 
identified.  Planning to have Sunday dinner with friends, Mrs. Ireland 
cancelled the engagement shortly before noon, because she complained of a 
slight illness.  She was stricken shortly before 3 o’clock.

Mrs. Ireland was formerly Miss Agnes Spencer, of Greenville, and was the 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Lee Spencer, who lived at a farm residence a 
short distance from Greenville.  She was born June 22, 1865 and spent her early 
life in Greenville later becoming a teacher at Howard City and at Belding where 
she taught for a number of years. 

She met Mr. Ireland while teaching in Belding and they were married there 
November 28, 1900 and resided there for several years.  Their only child, a 
son, died in infancy.  Thirty-one years ago they moved to Ionia where they have 
since resided.

Always an active member of women’s organizations in Ionia city and Belding, 
Mrs. Ireland was a member of the Ionia Presbyterian church and a member of the 
Washington club, an organization founded in Belding and Greenville which meets 
each year in celebration of the birthday of George Washington.  At the time of 
her death Mrs. Ireland was treasurer of the Presbyterian ladies’ aid society, 
member of the Woman’s Literary club and of the Order of Eastern Star.

Mrs. Ireland is survived by her husband, a sister, Miss Mable Spencer, 
instructor in a Grand Rapids high school, and an aunt, Mrs. Climena Spitler, of 
Grand Rapids and Greenville, and H.L. Wilder, of Ionia, a nephew.


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