Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Locke, Margery Ann 1930
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, May 7, 1930

Death paused a moment Tuesday evening in the garden where bloom the blossoms 
of innocent and happy childhood and plucked another of its fair and fragrant 
flowers, Margery Ann, the beautiful five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Allen B. Locke, 404 Rich street.

Dread influenza, followed by complicating conditions which every aid that 
could be summoned failed to remedy, had taken a steady toll from the little 
body over a period of nearly ten days, and gradually drained the strength and 
vitality of youth, until the sorrowful end, which came shortly after half past 
nine o’clock.

A week ago Monday Margery Ann attended school, happy and well with her 
classmates in the kindergarten room of the Jefferson school.   Stricken in 
apparent good health and youthful happiness, she became ill a week ago Tuesday 
and gradually grew worse as pneumonia and other serious after-effects of 
influenza developed.  Since Sunday she had been in a coma almost continuously, 
her condition giving grievous concern to the family.  Ionia and Grand Rapids 
physicians were in consultation and every effort was made to stay the approach 
of death.  As Tuesday shadows deepened into night the frail tie which bound 
the weakened childish body to life was snapped and the little soul released to 
its Creator.

Margery Ann was a dainty child whose five brief years had served but to endear 
her to everyone who came to know the sunshine of her presence.  Fair of hair 
and blue of eye, of sweetly childish countenance, sunny disposition, quick and 
eager to learn, she had reached an age when she could add much to the joy and 
beauty of those lives with which she came in contact, in her own home, her 
school, and in whatever place her daily life might take her.  Blessed as she 
and her parents were with the wealth of promise her young life held forth her 
unexpected illness and untimely passing brought a deep sense of sorrow and 
loss not alone to those upon whom it rested mostly heavily, but to very many 
others in the city whose lives it touched.

Margery Ann was born February 24, 1924, and was planning to enter the first 
grade in school the coming September.  She is survived by her parents and two 
sisters, Neva Elaine, aged three and a half, and a baby sister, four months of 
age.  Neva Elaine, who is also suffering from influenza, is a very sick little 
girl.

Mr. and Mrs. Locke have been called upon to bear more than their share of 
sorrow, in the loss of their little daughter and the deaths during the past 
few months of Mr. Locke’s mother and grandmother.

Funeral services for Margery Ann will be conducted at the home Thursday 
afternoon at three o’clock by Rev. W. F. Kendrick, pastor of the First 
Methodist Episcopal church.  The service will be for relatives and friends of 
the family and interment will be in the mausoleum in Highland Park cemetery.



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