Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Harriet Abigail August 6, 1929
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The Lake Odessa Wave, Thursday, August 15, 1929
Benjamin Frank Johnson, age 12
Gerald Phillip Johnson, age 8
Royal Charles Johnson, age 3
Harriet Abigail Johnson, age 1

Wednesday afternoon of last week the bodies of four little children were laid 
to rest together in Lakeside cemetery as they had died together beneath the 
wheels of the fast east bound passenger train about noon of the day before in 
a crossing accident which has left Lake Odessa shocked and sorrowing.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are well known and highly respected residents of the 
community living on the farm at the north edge of village.  He is a member of 
the Lake Odessa school board and is a rural mail carrier.  It is a strange 
coincidence that the fatal accident occurred after he returned from his first 
trip around his mail route with the new car.

Funeral services were held from the home with only the immediate relatives 
present.  Out of respect for the sorrowing family and for the little ones who 
had come to so untimely an end, the entire business district of the village 
closed during the hour of the funeral.  Words of comfort and consolation were 
spoken by Rev. O. F. Bulman as he stood beside the single casket that held the 
remains of the four little ones and conducted the graveside ceremony as the 
casket was lowered into the grave in beautiful Lakeside cemetery which is the 
final resting place for the four little bodies.


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