Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lewis, Mary 1925
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Ionia County News, 29 Jan 1925

The remains of Mrs. Mary Lewis were brought to Pewamo from Detroit last Monday 
and interred in the family lot in East Plains cemetery by the side of her son, 
Walter Lewis, who died a number of years ago.  Accompanying the body from 
Detroit was the daughter, Mrs. William Benjamin, Mr. Benjamin, a son, John 
Lewis, of Boyne City, and a nephew, George Green, of Marine City.

The death of Mrs. Lewis, former pioneer of Pewamo, took place at the home of 
her daughter, Mrs. Benjamin, in Detroit, last Friday, after an illness of over 
two years.  Older residents of Pewamo will remember the deceased, who was the 
widow of John Lewis, a pioneer resident of that village.  If the writer 
remembers correctly, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis settled in Pewamo shortly after their 
marriage and made that the family home for a great many years, the husband and 
father passing to his reward over a quarter of a century ago.  Mrs. Lewis 
continued to make her home in Pewamo until the infirmities of advancing age 
compelled her to go to Detroit to join her daughter.  She was 82 years old at 
the time of her death.

Mrs. Mary Lewis was a kindly gracious soul.  Through all the vicissitudes and 
sorrows of her long life she kept the same evenly smile of a Christian 
character and met the world unflinching and unafraid.  Although opportuned many 
times to make her home with relatives she continued to reside in the family 
home up until a very few years before her death.  She witnessed the best years 
of Pewamo’s history and her name is indelibly linked with that community for 
over fifty years.  Besides her daughter and son, she is survived by two 
sisters, Mrs. Joseph Hauck, Pewamo, and Mrs. Kate Wyckoff, of Grand Rapids.  
Short funeral services were held at the grave, Rev. Fr. C.A. Ulenbert, Pewamo, 
in charge.  Friends and other relatives from Portland, Fowler and Westphalia 
followed the funeral cortege from Pewamo to the cemetery.


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