Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Osworth, Mark 1918
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Belding Banner, Wednesday, October 16, 1918

The body of Mark Osworth arrived on the 10:15 train last Thursday morning. …
[This section of the article gives information about many other soldiers.] 

He enlisted in the service of his country in Co. C. June 26, 1918.  He served 
eight weeks in Lansing and was then sent to Camp Halabard, where he was at the 
time of his demise.  He leaves to mourn their loss a devoted father and mother 
and five sisters, Mrs. Blanche Jenks, of Denver, Colo., Mrs. Edna Kleine, 
Misses Libbie, Bernice and Marie Osworth of Belding, Michigan.

The lovely and loving son, brother and friend died where manhood’s morning 
almost touches noon and while the shadows still were falling toward the west.  
He had not passed … [this section stops here]

[The beginning of this section is cut off.] Halabard, Maryland, where he 
contracted Spanish influenza and later on pneumonia and which resulted in his 
death at Ft. McHenry base hospital, Baltimore, Md., on Monday morning, October 
7.  He was married on August 22, 1913 to Miss Clara Fisher, who survives and 
has the sympathy of the entire city in her hour of deep affliction.  He was for 
a long time employed in the Richardson mill and his character was above 
reproach.  His friends in this city are from all classes and all creeds and are 
legion.


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