Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rice, Sylvester R. 1907
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, February 1, 1907

The funeral service for S. R. Rice, at the Methodist church, on Sunday 
afternoon, was very largely attended, and was in every respect a very sincere 
testimonial of the high regard in which deceased was held in this community.  
The remains were accompanied from the late home by delegations of the retail 
grocers of the city, and Maccabees, the Woodmen, and a long line of the 
Oddfellows, who were joined at the church by a number of the Daughters of 
Rebekah.

The service and sermon at the church was most sympathetic.  Rev. Dr. Cogshall 
read portions of the 29th Psalm, and 1st Corinthians, 15th chapter, for the 
scriptures lesson, and based his discourse upon words found in 1 Samuel, 
20:18, “Thy seat will be empty.”  Deceased was an officer in this church, and 
it was the intimate and honorable relations between the pastor and his helper 
that prompted, perforce the good opinion of the one for the other.  The 
carriers were selected from the several societies, G. B. Fleming, E. E. Slye, 
J. C. Beattle, Henry Cable, Harvey Moffatt, J. C. Christian, and James Hanigan 
as an honorable bearer from the grocers.  Interment was in Highland Park.



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