Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McCartney, William H. October 24, 1933
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Lake Odessa Wave-Times October 26, 1933

A VILLAGE VETERAN DIES AT AGE OF 70
Gives Forty-Four Years of Faithful Service To the Village at Lake Odessa. 
Funeral Thursday.

Not often is this paper called up on to record a death that came as such a 
surprise as that of the death of William H. McCartney, owner and manager of the 
large double store in the center of main street.

Mr. McCartney had what was termed a cold early last week but nothing that seemed 
to need medical care until Thursday, just one week before his body was placed in 
its last resting place. From the time of his first medical attention til the 
end, everything that could be done was done but pneumonia developed in it worst 
form and death followed Tuesday morning.

Mr. McCartney came to Lake Odessa in 1889, less than a year after it became a 
village. He and his brother Hale, who died in 1908, started a general store, 
which has continued and is today the largest store in the village. Mr McCartney 
has been the leading spirit of the store through the 44 years of such service  
to the public. For twenty years  he has been Vice-President of the State Savings 
bank here. He was President of the village when the village water system was 
installed, and served several terms as councilman. He was also a member of the 
board of education for thirty years. He was a member of the Commercial club.

William McCartney's advice was sought when any new project was to be instituted. 
He was conservative and always demanded to be sure of a position before he gave 
it his sanction. The thing that his family will cherish his memory most for, was 
his kindness to, and his consideration for his family. His home life as a 
husband and father is said to have been ideal. Their happiness was his highest 
ambition.

The deceased was married in December 1891 to Miss May E.Cornell, at the home of 
her mother Mrs.Alice Colwell by the Rev. J.A. Phillips, pastor of the Methodist 
church.

He leaves besides his widow, two sons William C., cashier of the Savings bank 
and Arthur, associated with him in the store, and two daughters, Grace, 
assistant cashier at the bank and Alice a successful teacher but who is a 
present managing the home life, the mother being a semi-invalid. There are eight 
grandchildren.

The funeral was held at the home Thursday afternoon, Rev. G.F. Bulman of Sparta, 
a former pastor here, officiating. The splendid floral tributes were a silent 
testimony to the regard and respect in which the father and his family are held.
Burial was at Lakeside cemetery.

Additional Comments:
Lakeside Cem.#4-447-1

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