Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Shepard, Alice A. (Bywater) (Mrs. Wm. H.) October 13, 1929
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - October 27, 1929
              MRS. WM. SHEPARD DIES AT BLANCHARD

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          DEATH RESULTS FROM ABSCESS POISONING.

 LEAVES A SON AND FOUR DAUGHTERS BESIDES HUSBAND.

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   Word was received here Friday of the serious illness of Mrs. Alice Shepard at
Blanchard. She and her 
husband have been visiting their children since the middle of August to prevent her
from having hay fever. 
She was taken with an abscess as the result of the "flu", going from the ear to the
throat in the form of 
streptococcus and the poison spread through her system. Two specialists from Grand
Rapids, two local 
doctors and her son and son-in-law, both physicians, doing all that human hands
could do to save her. Hope 
after hope giving way to great sorrow at her passing Sunday morning.

   Mrs. Shepard was of a quiet, refined mature, highly respected and greatly admired
by friends and devotedly 
loved by her family.

   The funeral was held at the First United Brethren church Tuesday afternoon. Rev.
C. N. Stormes, a former 
pastor now of Casco, preaching the sermon. A quarette, Mrs. M. M. Armstrong. Mrs.
Rose Irwin L T. Gilson 
and S. W. Dann accompanied by Mrs. L. T. Gilson furnished the music.

   The pallbearers were Charles and Lafayette Lepard, M. L. and Frank Foght, William
Curis and Charles 
Begerow. 

   Burial was at Lakeside cemetery.

                                OBITUARY

   Alice A. Bywater, daughter of Ellen and Abel Bywater, was born November 22, 1865
in Ionia county.

   She was united in marriage to William H. Shepard, Feb. 20, 1881. To this union
were born six children.- Mrs. 
Grace Houghton, Mrs. Clara Smith both of Blanchard, Jennie A. deceased, Dr. B. H.
Shepard of Lowell, Mrs. 
Bertha Franklin of Remus and Mrs. Elsie Ingerson of Detroit.

   Early in life she accepted Christ as her Saviour and was united with the United
Brethren church at West 
Odessa on her wedding day and later affiliated with the United Brethren church in
Lake Odessa where she 
was faithful and active in Christian cuties and maintained her hope in Christ until
the last.

   To know her was to love her. She was a wonderful wife and mother and leaves a
beautiful memory with her 
loved ones.

   She leaves to mourn their loss, the husband, one son and four daughters, one
sister Mrs. Julia Smith of 
Dexter, Mich., two brothers George and Freeman Bywater of Grand Rapids, seven
grandchildren, several 
nieces and nephews and other relatives and a host of fiends.

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                    CARD OF THANKS

   We wish to sincerely thank all of our friends for their wonderful kindness,
sympathy and aid, in our 
bereavement.

   William H. Shepard and family.

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