Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Munroe, Carrie (Ramsey) 1930
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Portland Observer, 5 Feb 1930

Throngs Say Farewell To Mrs. Munroe

Funeral Service Held at Farm Home Wednesday; Burial at Eagle

Death Came Sunday

Old Resident Loses Long Fight to Regain Health

Filling the farm home where they had so often gathered on happier occasions in 
the past, throngs of friends of Mrs. Carrie Ramsey Munroe bade her a last 
farewell when funeral services were conducted by Rev. John H. Stewart, 
Wednesday afternoon.  Burial was in North Eagle cemetery.

Announcement of the death of Mrs. Munroe was received Sunday and word of her 
failure to recover from her long illness came as a distinct shock to her wide 
circle of friends in this vicinity.  She was under treatment in the John 
Proctor hospital at Peoria and had been reported as progressing well when last 
word was received prior to the final word of her death.

Injured Knee.

Mrs. Munroe’s illness dates from about the first of October when she injured 
one knee in alighting from an auto.  In some manner a bit of cartilage was 
sheared off in the knee joint and this later worked its way into the blood 
stream resulting in embolism which was the immediate cause of her death.  Her 
fight to regain health was hampered by a complication of other ailments that 
defied the best medical and surgical attention given her in Blodgett hospital 
at Grand Rapids and at Proctor hospital, in Peoria.

When her condition became serious, following the accident, her daughter Mrs. 
Lucinda Munroe Burhans rushed home and accompanied her mother to Grand Rapids 
where Mrs. Munroe was put under the care of the foremost specialists in that 
city.  After several days there the doctors expressed their fear she would not 
recover from the ailment which was being endured at that time but she rallied 
and recovered sufficiently so that she was able to be taken in an ambulance on 
the trip of more than 300 miles to Peoria.  She was accompanied by her daughter 
and seemed to stand the trip well.

Immediately upon arrival at Peoria she was taken to the Proctor hospital where 
she went under the care of her son-in-law, Dr. Ernest Burhans.  For a time two 
private nurses were kept on duty day and night but she responded well to 
treatment and before long only one nurse was required.  About two weeks ago it 
was deemed possible for Mrs. Munroe to be up in a wheel chair a part of the 
time and was even permitted to be on her feet for a minute or so at a time, the 
injured knee being supported in a plaster cast.  Her condition was so greatly 
improved that she was able to be without the constant attention of a private 
nurse.

Toward the last of her illness, Mrs. Monroe often expressed to her daughter the 
wish that she might be able to join “Lew”, her husband who died a few years 
ago, and this desire seemed to prevent recovery and offset efforts of the 
doctors to aid her.

Early To Portland.

Carrie Ramsey, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Ramsey, was born October 25, 
1867.  While but a small child she came with her parents from Augusta, Mich., 
her birthplace, to Portland.  It was here she was married to Lewellyn Munroe, 
September 15, 1885, a marriage which was ideally happy and which ended only 
with death.  Immediately following the marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Munroe moved to 
the farm near Frost Corners where they continued to make their home until the 
end.  It was here, too, that Mrs. Burhans, their only daughter, was born.

From the time of her earliest girlhood Mrs. Munroe showed the literary and 
artistic abilities for which she later became locally famous and with her 
daughter is so richly endowed.  Her splendidly prepared papers presented on 
many occasions before meetings here and the beautiful products of her brush 
which adorned her home were delights to the many who knew her.

Leader in Clubs.

Her active interest in club, organization and church work found early 
manifestation in her work in organizing the Danby Bridge club more than 20 
years ago.  She retained her membership in that group up to the time of her 
death.  She also was the president of the Danby Ladies’ Literary society, an 
office she had held for many years, and was prominently active in the Portland 
Ladies’ Literary club of which she also was a member and past officer.  Grange 
work as a member of the Danby Grange also was one of her interests.  Her church 
affiliation was with the Baptist church of Portland and she was active and 
loyal in her church work and in the work of the Ladies’ Aid society in which 
she held membership.

Besides her daughter, she is survived by three brothers, George Ramsey, 
Portland; Claud Ramsey, Toledo and Ward Ramsey, Phoenix, Ariz. and two sisters, 
Mrs. D. W. Church, Pocatello, Idaho, and Mrs. Cyrus Bosworth, Sumner, Wash.

Final Tribute.

Perhaps no greater tribute could have been paid Mrs. Munroe by her friends in 
the community where she lived, or a more loyal proof of their old devotion to 
her than the efforts of Lulu Murphy, Mrs. Robert Wooden, Mrs. Will Atherton, 
Ben Solarski and Will Seibel who, upon receiving word of her death went to the 
home and prepared for the sad return of their friend.  The house was warmed, 
thoroughly dusted up and even food was provided against the coming of Mrs. 
Burhans with the body of her mother.

Not content with this labor of love and respect, the men went into the spacious 
yard and, with a wheel scraper, cleared the snow from the grounds in order to 
provide parking space for the funeral cortege.


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