Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Preston, Thede 1916
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Unidentified Publication, Jan 1916

To The Realm Of Rest.

The Petaled Lips and Perfumed Breath of Many Flowers Spoke a Tender Good-Bye at
the Funeral Service for Thede Preston.

The spacious audience room and gallery of the Church of Christ was filled to
capacity on Sunday afternoon at the funeral service for Thede Preston, friends
of the family and of the young business man being present from every walk of
life.  He was called from this life at the early age of 27 years, with a
suddenness which brought a double shock.  Only a few brief days before, at the
Christmas season, we saw him on the streets of this city of his birth,
apparently in the full measure of his strength; a week only passed, and we were
shocked into tearful silence by the announcement of his death.  Thede Preston
was instinctively suited for a life of commercial usefulness, and success was
crowning his efforts.  His life was cut short all too soon.  He had much to live
for.  He was a graduate of the Ionia High School - class ’07, and the subsequent
four years were spent at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated. 
For a year and a-half he has been a member of the firm of Burch, Love & Preston,
builders and contractors, and they had built and sold many houses in the
northwest section of Detroit.

The service at the church, purposely shorn of any attempt at display, was
nevertheless altogether beautiful.  There was a wealth of floral testimonials
which spoke more tenderly than words, the singing was sensibly sweet in
selection and sentiment, and the discourse by the Rev. Fred P. Arthur of
Detroit, a lifelong friend of the deceased and of the family, was both
interestingly exegetical in its treatment of the progress of life, and tender as
it touched the private life of his young friend.  The speaker chose for his
theme what he termed that most wonderful writing in all literatures; “I am the
resurrection and the life, he that believeth in me, thought he were dead, yet
shall he live.”

The music consisted of three selections - a quartette by Miss Salome Belser and
Miss Sadie Taylor, Dr. L. W. Yates and Thane Benedict, a duet by Misses Belser
and Taylor, and a duet by Messrs. Yates and Benedict, all of them
sympathetically beautiful.

The carriers were: Orry Waterbury, Claude Emmons, S.I. Carlson, Don M. Holland,
H.B. Knap and Harry Ward - the first named of Ionia, the next four of Detroit,
and last named of Greenville, and Messrs. Holland, Carlson and Ward being
members of the same graduating class from the U. of M. with deceased.


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