Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Setchfield, Bert L. 1918
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Monday, September 16, 1918
Memorial services were held yesterday afternoon for the two brothers, Bert and 
Norman Setchfield, who were drowned at Alberta, Canada Labor Day.  At the same 
time services were being held at Alberta with the same songs sung, “Jesus, 
Lover of My Soul,” “Rock of Ages” and “Nearer My God to Thee.”  Rev. C. C. 
Buckner spoke very comforting to the people, how the feelings for the loss of 
those we love should be controlled.  Many beautiful flowers were brought by 
friends and relatives.  

Bert was 46 years old and leaves a wife and five children.  Norman was 28 
years old and leaves a wife and three children.  They also leave parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. George Setchfield of southeast Ionia; and two sisters, Mrs. Philip 
Baker of Marion and Mrs. Ralph Snooks, McBride.  Also an aunt, Mrs. John 
Hicks, Ionia, who is a sister of their mother, Mrs. George Setchfield.

The boys left the house the morning of Labor day to go duck hunting and failed 
to return at night.  The alarm was not give until morning and in the afternoon 
of the next day the bodies were found clasped together in the lake where they 
lost their lives.

Subsequent Publication:  Wednesday, September 18, 1918

Bert L. and Norman M. Setchfield, oldest and youngest sons of Mr. and Mrs. 
Geo. Setchfield of Ionia township, were born at Ferris, Montcalm County, Bert, 
December 15, 1882 and Norman October 24, 1891.

Until they went to the northwest their lives were spent in Montcalm and Ionia 
counties.  Both boys made a confession of faith and were baptized.  In 1904 
Bert was united in marriage to Katherine Brown of Ionia township, who with 
five children, two sons and three daughters, survive him.

Norman was marred in 1912 to Donna Bugbee and to them have been born one son 
and two daughters, who are living.  

In 1914 Bert moved to Alberta, Canada.  He was followed in 1916 by Norman and 
his family.  There they have lived together, sharing each other’s work and 
pleasures as they had in former years.  There they passed from earth clasped 
in each other’s arms Sept. 2, 1918, and were buried together.

That they and their families have made a place for themselves in the lives and 
hearts of the community where they have made their home was shown by the 
spontaneous response of everybody for miles around to render aid and comfort 
as though they had been their own kin.  They were pioneers in a new country 
and success was about to crown their efforts.

Besides their individual families and their parents, they are survived by two 
sisters and a brother, Mrs. Phil Baker, Marion, Mich.; Mrs. Ralph Snook, 
McBride, and Richard Setchfield, Ionia township.


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