Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Motzer, Katherine 1932
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, December 29, 1932

Miss Katherine Motzer, 68, died at her home, 407 Rice street, Thursday morning 
following a long illness.  She was born August 8, 1864, at Hanover Conn., 
coming to Ionia at the age of five years with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Frederick Motzer.  Others in this family were Mrs. Lena Lauster, who died 
December 24; Mrs. Christens Pickhaver, of South Bend, Ind., Fred, Jr., who 
died in 1883; Anna, who died in 1882, and a sister, Bertha, and a brother, 
George Motzer, who were born in the Motzer home on Rice street and where 
Katherine died December 29, at 7:30.

Miss Motzer was of a lovable disposition and always doing something for 
others, even after she became ill, she forgot her own pain as she ministered 
to the happiness of those about her.  She contributed much to the erection and 
maintenance of the home, which she shared with her brother and sister.  She 
was a great lover of flowers and those about the home were of her planting and 
in her care until her illness of pneumonia early in 1932.  From this she never 
fully recovered and during the summer suffered a recurrent attack of heart 
disease, being ill all summer and fall and in a gradual decline, but making no 
complaints about her sufferings.  A favorite in the neighborhood with the 
children, she was familiarly known by them and adults as “Katie.”  She was the 
homekeeper while her brother, George, and sister, Bertha, were employed, and 
for the mother, who died July 7, 1915.  Two weeks before her death her 
sufferings were intense but she remained cheerful and never discontinued her 
interest in children, especially those of her niece, Mrs. H. R. Moulton.

She was a member of the Evangelical church and regular in attendance until 
failing health and the devotion to her mother prevented her from going except 
occasionally.

The funeral services will be conducted from the home, 407 Rice street, 
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 by Rev. A. L. Bingaman.  The burial will be in Oak 
Hill cemetery.


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