Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McGowan, Alderette August 23, 1916
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, August 23, 1916
Mrs. Stephen McGowan of Hubbardston, aged 64 years, was found dead this 
morning early, on the back porch at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles 
Reasoner, 722 West Main street.  The body was suspended from a clothes line 
around her neck while the other end was tied to a hook above.  The body was 
found about five o’clock;  and Dr. Geo. P. Winchell was immediately sent for, 
and upon arrival and investigation concluded that life had been extinct 
perhaps an hour.

Mrs. McGowan resided on a farm about one mile out of Hubbardston, but had been 
in Ionia at the home of her daughter some six weeks, treating for a cancerous 
trouble, and had become despondent over her condition and the care and anxiety 
she was causing the friends.

The husband and three daughter survive, the daughters being Mrs. Clarence 
Townsend of Stockbridge, Mrs. Frank Smith of Ypsilanti, and Mrs. Charles 
Reasoner of Ionia.

Funeral service will be at 2:00 o’clock on Friday afternoon at Hubbardston, at 
the M. E. Church, with the order Eastern Star in charge.  Deceased was a 
devout Christian woman and consistent in her active church life, and was also 
an active and helpful member of the Hubbardston chapter of the O.E.S., where 
she was long a member.


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