Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Oberlin, Wilbur 1916
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The Belding Banner, Wednesday, January 26, 1916


Wilbur Oberlin, aged seventeen years, died in the city hospital Wednesday 
evening, January 19.  He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Oberlin and was 
born near Blanchard in Isabella county, Mich.  

With his parents he came to this city eight years ago.  Wilber had been a 
frail child since infancy, and the affliction was of such a nature that he 
could not outgrow it although given careful attention by his parents.  
Recently he was taken worse and his physician, Dr. Litle, saw that an 
operation for appendicitis must be performed at once.  The operation took 
place at the hospital Saturday, January 15, and he survived until the 
following Wednesday.  A postmortem revealed the fact of serious complication 
of liver and stomach difficulties, gangrene having developed.

The funeral was held Saturday afternoon at one o’clock at the home of his 
bereaved parents, where a large number of the neighbors and friends and about 
twenty-five relatives from out-of-town were in attendance.  Rev. C. M. Pease 
of the Church of Christ officiated and spoke comforting words to the sorrowing 
parents and relatives from the text, “Let us go also that we may die with 
Him.”  The singing was by Mr. Wesley Bussell and Mr. Norman Johnson.  Many 
beautiful flowers from friends and a floral wreath and spray from the warpers 
and spoolers of the silk mill covered the casket.

Besides his parents he leaves four brothers and three sisters—Orrin Oberlin of 
Grand Rapids; Austin of Lansing; Otto and Walter of this city; and Eva, Goldie 
and Gladys Oberlin.  His four cousins—Ray, Bernie, Chauncey and Clifford 
Oberlin were the pallbearers who laid his body to rest in River Ridge cemetery.


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