Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lowrey, Abram "Pratt" August 16, 1904
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Lake Odessa Wave-Friday August 12, 1904

An Unexpected Summons.

Abram P. Lowrey, best known as "Pratt" Lowrey, died at his home in Berlin 
Township, on Tuesday morning August 16th, 1904., after a short illness, caused 
by a complication of diseases from which he has not been well for a long time, 
but over which but little concern had been felt. The funeral occurred from the 
M.E.Church in Berlin Center on Thursday forenoon. Rev. N W. Weston delivering 
the sermon, and the funeral being in charge of Director Weed of this village. 
The remains were brought to this village and interred in Lakeside cemetery, 
being followed to their last resting place by a great number of relatives and 
friends, there being 52 rigs to follow the remains from the home to the church, 
and at the church there was an assemblage of one of the largest crowds ever 
attending a funeral in that township.

The funeral was under the charge of the Odd Fellow loge of Saranac, he being a 
member there, and most of his lodge brothers were in attendance. The Woodmen 
lodge of Saranac, of which he was a member, also sent an escort of about thirty 
people with the remains of their brother from the home to the grave.

Mr.Lowrey was born in Berlin township October 19th 188, his parents being Mr and 
Mrs Norton and Mary Lowrey, well known pioneers of this section. His father died 
several years ago, while the mother remains to mourn with the rest of the family 
the departure of this near and dear one.
Mr.Lowrey was married to Miss Emma McCoy n Feb. 29th 1886, Rev. Wm. Davenport of 
Saranac, officiating. to this union was born one son, Charles Norton, born 
Dec.4, 1886, who is left to mourn with his mother for the kind and devoted 
father and husband gone on before.

With the exception of a brief residence in this village, and later in Saranac, 
Mr.Lowrey was lived on the old homestead, one and a half miles south and west of 
Berlin Center, all his life. Besides a host of friends, as was manifest at the 
funeral, he leaves a mother, a widow, son, two brothers and seven sisters to 
mourn their loss.

Mr.Lowrey had a wide acquaintance, having bought and sold all kinds of stock all 
over all of this part of Ionia county. He was known as an upright and honest 
sort of fellow, bound to win in the world, but win honestly and fairly. He was 
possessed with the true Lowrey disposition of thrift and aggressiveness, and had 
laid the foundation of a considerable fortune. He had a good farm and a big one, 
and things have been playing nicely in his hands of late, but now all is at an 
end, however his little family are well provided for.

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Lakeside Cem.#6-678

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