Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Michelsen, A. Otto 1932
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, December 16, 1932

A prayer service was conducted at the home, 104 West Washington street, 
Thursday afternoon for A. O. Michelsen, proprietor of the City Smoke House, 
who died of pneumonia Monday afternoon, following a brief illness. Rev. F. J. 
Fitch was in charge of the services at the home and those which followed at 
the Boynton funeral chapel. 

In speaking at the chapel, Rev. Fitch said:

“We come today to bid farewell to a kind friend.  It is not a pleasant duty.  
Saying farewells is never a pleasant duty.  But as we come face to face with 
this brutal fact we realize that we are face to face with stern realities of 
life.  This is the way of life.  The Psalmist said ‘The length of life is 70 
years, or perhaps by reason of great strength 80 years.’  Sometimes it is much 
less than that, but in the end we have all to go through the same gate to life 
into the eternity.  It is the commonest experiences of mankind and the one we 
shun the most for ourselves and our friends.  Life teaches us a few things.

“First, it teaches us the value of friendships.  We must live with our fellow 
men, and life is much sweeter and more beautiful if we can look men in the 
face and call them friend.  Our brother was a kind friend to all.  He turned 
no one away who was in need.  He is known up and down the street as a friend 
of men.  Life teaches that.

“Then, life teaches us the necessity of courage.  It takes courage to live and 
to work in this world of strife and toil.  Not courage born of a careless 
attitude, but courage born of an intelligent appreciation of the issues of 
life.  Such courage is also born of an appreciation of the nearness and wisdom 
of God.”

Mrs. R. A. Colwell and Mrs. Thane Benedict provided the music.  The flowers 
were in charge of Miss Janet Nichol and Mrs. Alfred Nichol.  The bearers were 
Clarence Steele, Harry Callow, Wesley Turk, John King, Charles Whorley, and 
Leonard Holtz.  Burial was in the Highland Park cemetery.

Among those from out of town to attend the service were Mrs. Fred Crandell and 
nephew, Freeport; Mr. and Mrs. George Whitney, and Mrs. Knott and Mr. Stanley, 
of Portland.


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