Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....LaDow, Lodema 1940
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 26 & 30 Mar 1940

Mrs. Lodema LaDow, who celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday in Ionia, July 10,
1939, at the home of her grandson, Abram Tanner, of Union street, died Tuesday
morning at 2:50 o’clock, at the home of her grandson, Dean Higbee, in Dayton,
Ohio, where she had resided for the past ten years.  She was a resident of Ionia
city for 75 years, having come to Ionia in 1855.

She was born in New York state and came to Michigan while still a babe in arms.
 Her girlhood days were spent in Chesaning and it was not until 1855 that she
first came to Ionia.  She married Jacob LaDow shortly before the outbreak of the
Civil war.  At the time of the war she was left with two small children while
LaDow went off to war.  LaDow was a farmer and the couple owned a farm north of
town until 1904 when it was sold to Charles Burrows.  He was also a carpenter
and the family lived in 19 houses within a period of twenty years as each of the
houses he built were occupied by railroad employees.  They later made their home
at 113 West Lytle street.  LaDow died there in 1913.

The couple had three children, Ettie Tanner, Flora Higbee and Fred LaDow, all of
whom are deceased.

Surviving are five grandchildren, Vernon Tanner and Abram Tanner, of Ionia; Mrs.
W.A.Stacey of Grand Rapids, Dean Higbee of Dayton, Ohio; and Robert Tanner of
Midlothian, Ill., and four great-grandchildren, Perry and Charles Tanner of
Midlothian, Ill., and Marjorie and Esther Ruth Tanner, of Ionia.

Funeral services will be held in Ionia Friday afternoon from the Stone’s funeral
home, at 2 o’clock.  Interment will be in the family lot in Highland Park cemetery.

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Funeral services for Mrs. Lodema LaDow, 99, one of Ionia’s oldest residents, who
died Tuesday morning at the home of her grandson, Dean Higbee in Dayton, Ohio,
were conducted Friday afternoon from the Stone funeral home in Ionia at 2
o’clock.  Rev. C.A. Brady of the Church of Christ officiated and interment was
in the family lot in Highland Park cemetery.

Music was furnished by Chandler Haight, sr., who sang “Beautiful Isle of
Somewhere.”  Floral arrangements were in charge of Mrs. John Welch and Miss
Loretta Cannon.  Bearers were Dean Higbee, Abram Tanner, Robert Tanner, Vernon
Tanner, Ward Stacy and J.H. Higbee.

Attending the services from out-of-town where Mr. and Mrs. Dean Higbee of
Dayton, O.; Robert Tanner of Midlothian, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Ward Stacy of Grand
Rapids, Miss Marjorie Tanner of Grand Rapids, Vernon LaDow of Belding, and Mrs.
Kate VanAllister, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mount, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Maxon, Mr. and
Mrs. Fay Curtis and Frank Curtis, all of Mt. Pleasant.


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