Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Jennings, Harry March 3, 1923 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Suanne Tasker stasker@cmsinter.net July 16, 2014, 5:21 pm Sentinel-Standard, March 13, 1923 DIES IN CAR AS HE STARTS TO SEE DOCTOR Harry Jennings Found Lifeless at Wheel of His Automobile When Physician Arrives at Home Northeast of City Before he started to leave his home this morning, Harry Jennings called Dr. E.F. Beckwith on the phone at his office. "I've got to see you," he told the doctor. "Wait for me. I'll be right down." "All right," the physician replied, "Hurry and I'll wait for you." But Mr. Jennings did not come. A short time later, in answer to a frantic appeal from Mrs. Jennings, Dr. Beckwith hurried to the Jennings home, just northeast of the city, and found Mr. Jennings seated in his automobile dead. He had left the house to go to the doctor's office and had climbed into his car. There he was stricken, gasped, became unconscious almost immediately and died before the physician arrived. According to Mrs. Jennings, Mr. Jennings had suffered last night with pains, believed to be the pains of angina pectoris, in his chest, about the heart and up into his neck. He determined to visit his physician this morning, but death was the winner in the race and arrived first at the Jennings home. Mr. Jennings, it is stated, had been in remarkably good health this winter. A short time ago he suffered a slight attack of grip, but recovered after one treatment, and had apparently recovered his health. The trouble which visited him last night was unheralded and caused him to seek his physician this morning, a visit that was interrupted by his death. About two years ago Mr. Jennings had a severe sick spell and was at the St. Louis sanitarium for treatment for several months. He was thought to have recovered from his illness at that time. He is survived by his widow, his mother, Mrs. Molly Jennings, who lived with him, a brother, Charles, employed by the Pere Marquette and a brother James, in Colorado. Mr. Jennings had been married twice his first wife dying over two years ago. For many years he was hall master at the Michigan reformatory and employed in other capacities there. He was born in Ronald township and was 56 years of age. Some time ago he moved from his home on West Main street to the old Sage farm just north of the city, where he has since been living. He was a prominent member of the Oddfellows lodge and of the Maccabees, well and widely known throughout Ionia and Ionia County were he was born and had live all his life. Additional Comments: Burial in Woodard Lake cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/j/jennigs25987nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb