Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ranous, Edna Elizabeth March 16, 1913
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, March 17, 1913
The funeral service over the remains of Mrs. Edward Ranous was held in the 
Methodist church, Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock, where many friends came to 
pay their last respects to the deceased.  Rev. G. W. Maxwell officiated and in 
his fine sermon said many comforting words to the stricken husband and 
family.  Many floral offerings attested the high esteem in which she was 
held.  The hospital nurse wrote the following:

U.B.A. Hospital, Grand Rapids, Mich.  March 20, 1913

Dear Brother Maxwell:

One of our Belding members Mrs. Edward Ranous, who passed away at our hospital 
Wednesday morning, was one of my special charges and I was with her as she was 
preparing to take her final flight into the great world beyond.  Mrs. Ranous 
was a very dear patient, a patient sufferer and a conscientious believer.  (I 
only knew her while she was here in the hospital.)  Though a firm believer she 
was not at first quite right with God. The last day of her illness she was 
very delirious but before passing away she became suddenly rational and began 
praying to God to “forgive her sins and be with her.”  She knew her people and 
gave each a parting message in her loving and kindly way.  When she was so 
troubled and praying to Go to “forgive her sins and be with her,” we told her 
how He said, “Ask and ye shall receive” and that He was with her and had heard 
her but just wanted her to believe.  She remembered her sins and confessed 
them before God and us.  Then she began saying over and over “I do believe.”  
She knew without us telling her that she was going away from the others but 
was so happy to know that “she would be with Jesus and her loved ones gone 
before and would be waiting there for the others to come.”  Her last wish 
was “that she might be of some use to help others to believe.”  Then soon 
after God came and took her soul away.  I thank Him that I might help in a 
small way to comfort and care for her in her last hours.  Sincerely Yours, 
Edna M. Nummer.

Edna Elizabeth Clanchy, aged twenty-five years and six months, was the 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clanchy and was married to Edward Ranous 
November 26, 1907.  On account of failing health from tubercular trouble, she 
went to the U.B.A. Hospital for treatment where an operation was performed 
Saturday, March 15 and died the following Wednesday.  She leaves beside her 
husband and parents two sisters, Mrs. Emma Hodgkins of Grand Rapids and Mrs. 
Hattie Credit of Belding.  

Those from out of the city present at the funeral were Will Rettinger and 
family, Greenville; Mrs. George Miller, Stanton;; Mr. and Mrs. H. Ludwick; 
Mrs. M. Ranous, Muir, Mrs. Nettie Charnley, Lakeview; John Miller, Alto; Mrs. 
Emma Sorge and Beth Whitsel, Ionia and Mrs. King.



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