Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tanner, Lovira (Goodenough) March 20, 1922
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Ionia County News - Thursday, March 30, 1922

Lovira Goodenough was born in Oakland county, Michigan, November 8th, 1845, 
and died at her home in Berlin township March 20, 1922, aged 76 years, 4 
months and 12 days.

When she was a small child the family moved to the township of Orange, Ionia 
county, where her girlhood was spent.

She was married to Marshall Tanner, November 15th, 1863. To this union were 
born eight children, three of whom died in infancy. She leaves to mourn 
their loss the aged husband and five children; Mrs. E.A. Rising of 
Clarksville, Mrs. W.A. Weiers of Ionia, Mrs. Louis Buche of Odessa township, 
Adelbert of Boston township,  and Lewis of Berlin; eleven grandchildren  and 
seventeen great grandchildren; two sisters and four brothers and a large 
circle of friends. 

In the spring of 1872 they moved onto the farm in Berlin, which was then a 
wilderness. Enduring the hardships and privations of the early settlers, 
they made for them selves a fine home. In her early married life she was 
converted and baptized, and about 12 years ago she united with the Wesleyan 
Methodist church at West Berlin, and as long as her health permitted she was 
a faithful attendant at church and the Missionary society and has always 
been a loyal worker in the Woman's Relief Corps of Saranac, of which she has 
been a member for years. The children were all at her bedside when the end 
came.

Mrs. Tanner was a dutiful, kind wife and mother, a staunch friend and a good 
neighbor, with a kind and pleasant smile for everyone, and will be greatly 
missed in the community where she has spent the last forty years of life.

"Safe in the arms of Jesus,"
Safe on His gentle breast, 
There by his love overshadowed
Sweetly her soul shall rest. 

Additional Comments:
Age: 76
Services: 22 March 1922
Saranac cemetery #544

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