Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sykes, Mattie (Vance) 1913
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Lyons Herald, 8 May 1913

Was Former Pewamo Girl

Mrs. Maggie Sykes Passes Away At Traverse City Last Friday Afternoon.  Funeral 
Held Monday at Grand Rapids.

Mrs. Maggie Sykes (nee Maggie Vance) a sister of Mrs. Wm. H. Patrick, Chancey 
E. and Oscar Vance, who grew to womanhood on the old homestead, north of 
Pewamo, passed away last Friday at the state hospital at Traverse City.  The 
remains were taken to the home of her sister, Mrs. Leonora Myers, at Gd. 
Rapids, where funeral services were held Monday afternoon, interment being made 
in one of the cemeteries near that city.   Besides the brothers and sisters 
were have already mentioned the deceased leaves two other sisters, Mrs. 
Josephine Terwilliger and Miss Suela Vance, both of Gd. Rapids, a brother, 
Samuel Vance, of Denver, Colo., and a daughter, Mrs. Sherman Ely, of Lansing.

The tragedy of Mrs. Sykes’ life was written many years ago at a time when she 
went down into the valley of the shadow and brought back a beautiful baby 
girl.  When the trembling mite of humanity was placed in the mother’s arms 
relatives were horror-struck to learn that the creator had demanded the 
mother’s reason for the life given that of the babe.  For some time she was 
cared for by relatives here, but later her condition became such that it was 
found necessary to give her into the keeping of the state.  Our readers who 
knew her in the gladsome happy days of old, will drop a tear in her memory and 
offer a prayer for the repose of one who suffered so much and so long.


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