Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McCrumb, Mildred Esther (Hoover) 1920
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Portland Observer, 29 Apr 1920

Death snuffed out a dear, treasured young life at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday morning, 
at the Edward W. Sparrow hospital, in Lansing, when Mrs. Ray R. McCrumb, better 
known in Portland as Mildred Hoover, passed into the unseen world beyond.  Mrs. 
McCrumb had undergone a delicate operation on the Friday preceding her death 
and apparently lacked the necessary vitality to overcome the shock.  She was 
given the best of medical attention and everything possible was done to save 
her, but in spite of these efforts she gradually grew weaker and weaker until 
the end.  Relatives are crushed with the grief over her untimely demise, and 
the young woman’s Portland acquaintances have been given a shock from which 
they will not soon recover.

Mrs. McCrumb’s maiden name was Mildred Esther Hoover.  She was a daughter of 
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Hoover, prominent residents of Eagle, and at the time of 
her death was just budding into her 20th year, having been born at Tuscola, 
Michigan, November 25, 1900.  She came to Eagle with her parents in 1908 and 
remained at the parental home until her marriage to Dr. McCrumb, a son of the 
late Riley McCrumb, of Eagle, on July 23, 1919.  Mrs. McCrumb attended the 
Portland schools for a couple of years and in June, 1919, scarcely a year ago, 
she graduated from the Lansing High.  She possessed a genial, sunny 
disposition, spreading good cheer wherever she went, and naturally won many 
admirers.

Dr. McCrumb, the surviving husband, is especially well known in Portland, 
particularly among the younger class of people.  He is a graduate of the 
Portland High school and while attending school here became popular as an 
athlete.  He was an army officer during the late war with Germany and for 
several months was stationed with the American expeditionary forces in France.  
Upon his marriage to Miss Hoover, which took place soon after his return from 
France, he entered upon the practice of medicine in Lansing, with offices in 
the Tussing building.  he has been enjoying an excellent practice.  Then, just 
as happiness and prosperity were beginning to come his way, death stepped in to 
crush his plans and hopes.  Dr. McCrumb and the bereaved parents have the 
sincere sympathy of the whole community in their sorrow.

Besides the husband and the parents, Mrs. McCrumb is survived by one brother, 
Harvey Hoover, of Lansing.  Funeral services were held at the McCrumb home, 615 
North Walnut street, Lansing, this (Thursday) afternoon at 2:00 o’clock, and 
the remains were buried in Mt. Hope cemetery, Lansing.


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