Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Morton, Oriana (White) 1919
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Lowell Ledger, 20 Mar 1919
                  
Good Woman Gone

Friend Pays Tribute to the Memory of Mrs. F. W. Morton

In the death of Oriana White Morton, widow of Frank W. Morton South Boston
township lost one of its old and well-known residents.  

Mrs. Morton was born August 4, 1845, on the homestead of her father, Timothy
White, and here, with a short exception of a half-year in Salt Lake City in the
70’s, she lived until her death, which occurred March 16, 1919.  In 1867 she was
married to Frank W. Morton, who died in 1909.  In the active work of those early
years, the community knew her as a helpful and sympathetic member, always ready
to care for the sick or to give her aid whenever she saw demand.  She had no
children and is survived by no relatives nearer than nephews and nieces but
mothered many a boy and girl in her home both in her earlier and later years.  

Mrs. Morton was a devoted Christian and as long as her health permitted was an
ardent worker in the Congregational (Union) church of which she was a member.  

In 1909, she suffered a fracture of the hip in a fall and from that time on had
constant hardship and pain, which she bore with heroic fortitude.  Naturally
impatient and exceptionally active and vigorous, she met the changed conditions
with an uncomplaining sweetness which touched every one who knew her.  Her death
came as a release which she coveted.  

To the community she will be one more of the old-time residents who have gone
on; to those who loved and cared for her she still lives, not only in that
immortal world in which she firmly trusted, but still in this world she lives
“in pulses stirred to generosity; in lives made better by her presence.”


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