Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Truesdell, Marion Esther 1923
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, March 1, 1923


Word has been received of the death of Miss Marion Truesdell, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Frank Truesdell, of Ronald township, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gould 
in Lowell on Tuesday evening.  Miss Truesdell, who had been employed at the 
Reed factory went down to Lowell to have some sewing done.  She was only ill 
for a short time.  The cause of death was given as gastritis.  She was 23 years 
of age at the time of death.

Besides her parents she leaves two brothers, Ford Truesdell and Julius A. 
Truesdell.

The body will be met by friends and relatives at the Reed hotel Friday at 1 
o’clock sun time and the funeral will be held from the North Plains Union 
church at 2 o’clock.

Marion E. was the second of the four children of Frank A. and Lenna B. 
Truesdell.  She was born in township of North Plains, October 23, 1899.  She 
came with her parents to her home near Nickle Plate, Ionia township, and began 
her school career at the Welch school.  Later she moved with her parents to 
their farm home in Ronald where her parents still reside and where she grew to 
young womanhood, finishing school in Long Plains.  

She was an active member of the Union Sunday school for several years, taking 
part in all entertainments for both church and Sunday school work.  At the age 
of 16 years, during a series of revival meetings held the winter of 1915, she 
gave her heart to God.   On August 22 she was baptized by Rev. H. A. Crum and 
was united with the Methodist denomination of the Union church.  

Later she went to Ionia and found employment at the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture 
company where she advanced until she became an expert weaver.  Wishing to 
obtain a higher and better position she saved her earning and October, 1921, 
entered the McLaughlin Business college at Grand Rapids and took up a special 
course in bookkeeping, typewriting, stenography, which course she had not 
finished, returning to Ionia about two weeks ago.  

On February 22 she went to visit friends at Lowell for a few days where she was 
taken very critically ill.  Her parents were summoned and with the aid of two 
physicians and all that loving hands could do was done, but to no avail.  She 
died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Gould at Lowell, February 27, aged 23 
years four months and four days.

She leaves to mourn her loss a loving father, mother, two brothers, Ford A. and 
Julius Truesdell.  A sister preceded her, having died in infancy.  She leaves 
besides her grief stricken family a large circle of relatives and friends to 
mourn her untimely death.  She had a kind and loving disposition and will be 
sadly missed by all her associates and fellow workers, both young and old.

Subsequent Publication: Thursday, March 8, 1923

Card of Thanks:

We wish to express our most sincere thanks for the many acts of kindness and 
sympathy extended us at the time of the death and burial of our beloved 
daughter and sister.  We wish especially to thank those who sent flowers, the 
minister for his words of sympathy and the singers.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Treusdell
Ford A. Treusdell
Julius Treusdell


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