Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tallman, Lina Iola (Smith) (Chapple) 1946
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Belding Banner-News, 15 Aug 1946

Sudden Death Summons Oldest Resident

Was Member Of First Graduating Class Of Belding High School

Lina Iola Smith, daughter of Ansel and Matilda Smith, was born June 8, 1864, in
Orleans township, Ionia county, on what is now known as the Bird Farm Dairy,
which at that time belonged to her Grandfather Smith.  With the exception of two
years spent in Portland, she lived in Orleans on a farm until 12 years of age,
when the family moved to Belding.  She was one of six girls who graduated in the
first class of the Belding high school in 1883.  Only one other member of this
class survives.  She is Mrs. Lena Moys of St. Paul, Minn. 

In 1887 she was married to E.E. Chapple was a partner in the E. Rutan Milling
Company.  Mr. Chapple died in 1919 and in 1922, Mrs. Chapple was married to
Edwin F. Tallman of Greenville and they have resided at the same home on Pearl
street.

In 1932 she suffered a stroke and has never been well since then.  During this
last summer she failed very noticeably and on the morning of August 8 passed
away while at the breakfast table.

The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Fitzjohn Funeral Home
and burial was in River Ridge cemetery in the family lot.  In the absence of her
own pastor, Rev. W.L. Cruthers of the Ionia Baptist church, officiated.  Mrs.
L.M. Berry and Mrs. J.N. Roth sang “Crossing the Bar” and “One Sweetly Solemn
Thought,” accompanied by Spencer Cornell at the organ.  Pallbearers were A.C.
Loyer, Vance Loyer, Wess Porter, C.W. Knight, Clayton Campbell and John York.

Mrs. Tallman was very active in the early days of the Baptist church, joining
the church in 1892 and continuing her interest all through the years.  Her
mother, Mrs. Smith; sister, Mrs. Osterhout, and herself will long be remembered
in the life of the Belding Baptist church.

She leaves her husband, Edwin F. Tallman; a daughter, Mrs. H.R. Trull; two
grandchildren, Robert Trull of Midland and Mrs. Richard Walker of Ann Arbor, and
a niece, Mrs. W.A. Savery of Detroit. 

Mrs. Tallman had lived in Belding the greatest number of years of any living
person.

Those attending the service for Mrs. Tallman, from away, where Robert Trull of
Midland, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walker of Ann Arbor, Miss Jane Savery of Detroit,
Mrs. Minnie Rowland of Coral, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Couchman of Fairplains, Glenn
Smith of Greenville and Carol Smith of Fairplains; also Mrs. W.A. Biss and
daughters, Edna and Alice, of Saginaw.


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