Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....MORRIS, Ariel Agnes (Denton) (Dunsmore) 2002
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association, Volume 38  October 2002  Number 2; submitted with permission from editor, Grayden D. Slowins
Ariel Agnes Denton Dunsmore Morris, 90, widow of Richard George Dunsmore & Lynn 
E. Morris, mother of Sharron Dunsmore VanVleck Kircher McCargar, Ardelis 
Dunsmore Endrei and Alaina Morris Trout, daughter of Arthur Elliot Denton & 
Cora DeAlice (Vandecar), daughter of George A. Vandecar & Agnes A. (Schnabel), 
daughter of Mary (Cantant) & Michael Schnabel, son of Regina & Anton Schnabel, 
Sr.  Born October 12, 1911, on the Saranac farm, she died June 22, 2002, in 
her "grossmuter wing" of Alaina's home in Onekama, MI.  Ariel was energetic, 
resourceful, and multi-talented, with a zest for life.  She graduated from 
Ionia County Normal in 1930 and practice-taught under Crystal (Brake) Slowins, 
then on her own.  Upon the untimely auto death of her young husband in 1939, 
she ran the Dunsmore dairy for a year, then studied photography and operated 
her own portait studio in Ionia.  After marrying Lynn Morris, she developed 
Horizon Drive subdivision on Arnold's Hill in South Ionia.  In the 1960s she 
attended Western Michigan University and was the last teacher at Sebewa Center 
School 1963-1965.  She always found humor, and when she came to interview for 
the job, she told the other School Board members, "I used to hold Grayden on my 
lap."  All her long life she was an extensive traveler, reader, teacher, 
painter, photographer, historic preservationist - including the Blanchard 
House - and farmer on her family's farm.  Her winter home was in Eustis, 
Florida.  She is buried in Saranac Cemetery. 

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