Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Luther, Olin C. 1921
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Lake Odessa Wave Times, 29 Jul & 5 Aug 1921

Body of Olin Luther Arrived Thursday.  Funeral Saturday, 10:30 a.m.

The body of Olin Luther another of our World War heroes who paid the supreme
sacrifice, arrived in Hoboken July 26th and arrived at Lake Odessa, Thursday,
July 28.  The funeral will be held at the Methodist church, Saturday at 10:30
a.m.  The American Legion will have general supervision of the arrangements. 
The funeral will be a military one.  Dr. M.L. Fox of First Church, Kalamazoo,
assisted by Rev. A.F. Nagler, pastor, will give the sermon and obituary.  A male
quartette will sing.  Burial will be at Lakeside.

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Body of Olin Luther Buried With Military Honors

Last Saturday forenoon the funeral of Olin Luther was held at the M.E. church
with military honors under the direction of the American Legion.  Olin, it will
be remembered, died in a hospital in France from shrapnel wounds while in
service at the front lines.  The body arrived here last Thursday and was placed
in the Weed undertaking rooms and a guard of soldiers was stationed at the
building as is the custom of protection of all returned soldiers’ bodies.

The commander of the Legion here read the burial rites and Chaplain Tingley read
the prayer.  Rev. Nagler read the scripture.  Dr. Fox of Kalamazoo an intimate
friend of Olin’s gave the address which consisted mostly of incidents in the
life of Olin as he knew them.  He took for his text, “He was at the Front.”  He
spoke particularly of the young man as being at the front whereby his character
he would be expected to be found, weather dangerous or not.

The music was furnished by Mr. and Mrs. S.W. Dann, Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Goodemoot
and Mrs. Thos. Johnson.  At Lakeside the funeral train entered while the Boy
Scouts played a dirge.  The burial service was read by Chaplain Tingley.  Dr.
Fox made a prayer.  The firing squad fired a salute then the final bugle call
was sounded.  The flag was lifted and delivered to the father and mother and the
body left in its last resting place.


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