Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Teeter, Charles 1932
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Lake Odessa Wave, 16 Jun 1932

On Friday a deep gloom of sorrow shadowed this community when the message was 
received that Charles Teeter had lost his life in Thornapple river.  He, with a 
nephew, Beryl Townsend, and a Mr. Cramer, one of his pupils, were camping for a 
few days.  The boat drifted from shore and Charles attempted to recover it but 
went down just before reaching the boat.  The autopsy revealed no water in the 
lungs and it is thought he suffered heart disease from the plunge into the cold 
water.  All efforts to revive life were in vain.

He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Teeter of this village.  He was a 
graduate of the Woodland school and of Manchester college.  The past year he 
taught in the Sunfield school acting as coach and was to return to this 
position again next year.  He was active in Y.M.C.A. and Boy Scout work and in 
the church organizations in all of which he gave very efficient leadership.  He 
was chosen and loved as a leader by both old and young.  The very large funeral 
and profusion of floral tributes expressed the sorrow of many friends in their 
loss.  Relatives from Ohio, also many who had been school mates at college came 
for the funeral.  The young man who had been his coach represented his college 
in bringing to this community their expression of appreciation in having had 
Charles Teeter in their school work, saying the president had said they had 
never had in their college one who had had the influence there for good that he 
had.  Professor Wenegar, in whose classes he had taken work preached the 
funeral sermon.  Interment was in Woodland cemetery.


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