Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Morse, Van Allen 1920
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 17 Nov 1920

V. A. Morse Died After Brief Illness

Passes Away In Same House In Which He Was Born Here 43 Years Ago.

The death of Van Allen Morse aged 43, which occurred this morning shortly after 
9 o’clock at his home on Morse street, was a shock to his many friends in 
Ionia, coming as it did after an illness which up until about two days ago was 
not thought to be a serious one.  While he had been suffering for several weeks 
with illness of a minor nature, and had taken to his bed two weeks ago today 
the critical nature of his ailment was fully realized but a short time before 
his death.  Dr. J. W. Whinnery of Grand Rapids was called in consultation with 
Dr. F. M. Marsh on Monday night and his affliction was diagnosed as leucaimia.  
At that time the opinion of the physicians was that he had but a few days at 
the outside to live.

Mr. Morse, although he had been a resident of other places for a number of 
years, was an Ionia boy and was born in the house in which he died, May 17, 
1877.  He attended school in Ionia and was a junior in the Ionia high school 
when his father, Judge A. B. Morse, was appointed United States consul at 
Glasgow, Scotland.  Mr. Morse went to Glasgow with his father as a secretary in 
the American consulate there, leaving his school course here, to take up his 
duties there.

After returning from two years spent in the Scottish capital Mr. Morse went to 
Iowa where he later attended the Still college at Des Moines and was graduated 
from the pharmacy department.  He remained in Clarion, Iowa, for some time, and 
then went to El Reno, Oklahoma, where he was in the drug business until he 
returned to Ionia about ten years ago.

Returning to Ionia, his boyhood home, Mr. Morse took up his residence in the 
old homestead on Morse street, where he had since resided.  He was a member of 
the Ionia lodge of Elks.

On February 5, 1907, he was married to Miss Marguerite Jasper at El Reno and 
with Mrs. Morse, two sons, Allen, aged 12, and Dan, aged seven, survive him.  
Besides his immediate family, he is survived by his parents, Judge and Mrs. A. 
B. Morse and two sisters, Mrs. Elvert M. Davis, of Grand Rapids, and Mrs. G. L. 
Yates, of Ionia.

The funeral will be held from the residence of Judge and Mrs. A. B. Morse, on 
East Washington street, Sunday afternoon.


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