Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lovrien, Charles B. 1930
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Tuesday, March 11, 1930
In the death of Charles Lovrien, 91, who died at the home of his daughter, 
Mrs. Lois Estabrook, Grand Rapids, Tuesday, the city loses another of its 
oldest citizens and the William H. Borden post, G.A.R. one of its oldest 
members.

Although born in New Hampshire, Mrs. Lovrien has lived the greater part of his 
life in Ionia and for over one-half a century in the present neighborhood of 
East Main street, which was his home until he went to Grand Rapids a short 
time to visit his daughter, where he was taken sick.

He was a member of the Twenty-first Michigan regiment and served throughout 
the period of the Civil war. He affiliated with the William H. Borden post 
shortly after its organization and as long as he was able to attend the 
meetings, he was a familiar figure among the old veterans.  After the close of 
the war he served as an engineer on the Pere Marquette railroad, then known as 
the Ionia and Lansing railway.

He leaves a son, Edward Lovrien, of Ionia, and the daughter, Mrs. Estabrook of 
Grand Rapids.

Subsequent Publication:  The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, March 14, 1930

The flag before the residence of the late Charles B. Lovrien, East Main 
street, fluttered at half mast Thursday, just as it had done often in the past 
when a Civil war veteran died.  Mr. Lovrien, during his lifetime there, had 
made it a rite to pay reverence to the memory of each of his comrades as they 
passed on before him, by flying at half mast on the flag staff he had set up 
in his yard, the flag under which they had fought in the war of the 
rebellion.  Thursday the flag carried it message of sorrow in memory of Mr. 
Lovrien himself, whose funeral services were held in the afternoon.

Rev. Paul L. Stewart conducted the services for Mr. Lovrien, which were held 
from the Church of Christ at 2:30 o’clock. In attendance were members of the 
Masons, an order which Mr. Lovrien joined before the Civil war, and members of 
the Women’s Relief corps.

Services at the church were followed by the Masonic ritual at the grave, and 
bearers were members of the Masonic order, Dr. J. J. Culp, Louis P. Essick, 
Fred J. Owens, W. T. Smith, Henry Voelker, E. W. Krainbrink.  Singing was by 
Mrs. Thane Benedict and Mrs. R. A. Colwell, accompanied by Mrs. F. C. 
Bloomer.  The sounding of taps by Lieut. Chester Black over the flag draped 
casket completed the funeral rite.


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