Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tower, Angelo Emery 1915
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Ionia Daily Sentinel on Fri. Dec. 10, 1915

Heart Attack on Thursday Evening Calls Long Time Resident Into the Great Unknown
Beyond.

Angelo Emery Tower died Thursday evening at 6:00 o’clock, after an illness of
about ten days.  He had been suffering with “grippe” but was much better, and it
was intended to dismiss the nurse that night.  At 5:30 he was talking to his
son-in-law, W.B. Hearth, and suddenly pressed his hand to his heart and spoke of
a sharp pain there.  Nurse and doctor were hastily called; he was laid on the
couch, and died in about fifteen minutes, becoming unconscious almost as soon as
the pain was felt.

Mr. Tower was born August 16, 1842, here in Ionia, where his entire life was
spent, except the two years that he was in the army, and a year or so spent in
Washington.  He was one of the four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Osmond Tower, the only
survivor at this time being Jas. F. Tower.  Angelo Tower went into the lumber
business with his father, and remained interested in that work until his
retirement, about five years ago.  For several years before he dropped business
entirely he was less actively engaged than in his earlier life.

He enlisted in 1862 in Company E, Sixth Michigan Cavalry, known as the Ionia
Mounted Rifles; which left here under command of Gen. J.H. Kidd.  The company
was mustered on Oct. 11, 1862.  Mr. Tower was then first sergeant.  He was later
promoted, and at the time of his discharge, which occurred in 1864 on account of
his disability as the result of typhoid, was captain of the company.  On June,
1878, he was made a member of the first class of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States.  

He married Miss Abbie Lovell, who died June 14, 1911, after five years of
illness.  They had three children, two of whom survive: Mrs. W.B. Heath of this
city and Louis Tower of Northport, Washington.  Ada Tower died in girlhood.  Mr.
Tower’s home has been with Mr. and Mrs. Heath since his wife’s death.  His own
home, which he built and lived in for twenty-seven years, is the one where he
died.  Three years ago, at Thanksgiving time, he suffered a stroke of paralysis,
but recovered almost entirely from it, and seemed well and strong for his years
just before his death.

The funeral will be held at the home, 126 Lafayette street, at 2:00 p.m. Sunday.
 Rev. A.R. Mitchell will have charge of the service, which will be simply the
Episcopalian ritual without music.  Mrs. Thompson of Spring Lake, Mrs.
Higenbotham of Chicago and Miss Ada Heath of Ann Arbor are expected to be here
to attend the funeral.


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