Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tucker, Orin Manly 1906
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Lake Odessa Wave, 13 Jul 1906

Orin Manly Tucker was born in Boston Township, Ionia Co., Mich., Jan 1, 1857.  
June 30, 1906, in his home at Lake Odessa, he laid down his long suffering body 
peacefully, and willingly passed to the richer, fuller life just over the way.

At the age of 21 he was united in marriage to Augusta A. Ring.  To them one son 
was born, Earl E., at which time the mother passed away.  In later years he was 
married to Fannie E. Vickery, who has been his constant companion and loving 
nurse through the past two years of suffering which he bore patiently, and when 
the mortal eyes closed, he had the splendid satisfaction of harboring in his 
soul neither harsh feeling, malice or ill-will for any person, saying, “If I 
have wronged any man I ask his forgiveness – Where any may have wronged me, I 
lay it all down and remember in bitterness no more.  It is all right, I am 
ready.  I want to go.”

His life and character – just Manly – and this is true:

“I watched a sail until it dropped from sight  Over the rounding sea, a gleam 
of white,  A last ?? farewell, and like a thought  Slipped out of mind, it 
vanished and was not.  Yet to the helmsman standing at the wheel, Broad seas 
still stretched beneath the gliding keel.  Disaster Charge!  He felt no 
slightest sign,  Nor dreamed of the far horizon line.  So may it be, perchance 
when down the tide  Our dear ones vanish, peacefully they glide  On level seas, 
nor mark the unknown bound.  We call it death, to them “’tis life beyond.”

The simplicity of the service, the sermon and the music so beautifully and 
appropriately rendered by the Rev. Mr. Aunks of Leonidas an old time friend, 
was just as Mr. Tucker had planned it, sympathy, modesty and sincerity being 
natural characteristics of the man.

The deceased was a business man of Clarksville and Leonidas for more than 
twenty years.  He then was obliged to give up active work and went to Minnesota 
for his health.  After three years in the west he returned to Michigan locating 
in Grand Rapids and from there to Lake Odessa, where he has been a constant 
sufferer from stricture of the esophagus.  Everything has been done that could 
be done for his relief but nothing could give permanent relief.  The burial 
took place in Boston township near his early home.

Those from away in attendance at the funeral were a brother H.G. Tucker and 
daughter Bernice of Leonidas also J. F. Frisbie and J. Leister, representing 
Tent 470 of Leonidas, Mrs. E. S. Babcock of Boston a sister, Mrs. M. J. Leak 
and daughter Lena of Minneapolis, the former a sister of Mrs. Tucker.

For unfailing kindness during this long, sad and severe illness, for assistance 
when the change came, from neighbors and friends for the many beautiful 
flowers, (including those from the Tent and Hive of Leonidas Maccabees where he 
was a charter meter) and for the kindly assistance of Miss Helen Downs the 
bereaved family express here their appreciation and heartfelt gratitude.


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