Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tupper, Mary (Filley) (Mrs. Ira) April 25, 1916
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - May 5, 1916
          OBITUARY
   Mary Filley was born in Ohio, March 4, 1850, coming to Michigan with her parents
while still very young and 
settling on a farm in Woodland township.
  In 1866 she was united in marriage to Ira Tupper of Odessa township, and to this
union were born four 
children, Phoebe, Myron, Harvey and Alice, the first  and last named of whom
preceded their parents into 
eternity.
   Five years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Tupper went to Kansas, where they
took up a homestead and 
lived for a like period.  They then returned to Odessa township, Michigan, where the
remaining years of their 
married life were spent.
   Mr. Tupper having answered the last call April 18, 1909, his wife became a member
of her son, Myron's 
family in Mecosta county, Michigan. At their home on April 25, 1916, after an
illness of a few minutes she 
departed this life to join her husband and two children in the next world.
   After a prayer at the home of her son, Myron, the remains were brought to the
home of her son, Harvey, in 
Lake Odessa, where funeral services were held April 29, 1916, the sermon being
preached by Rev. I. H. 
Mourer, a life long friend.  Interment was made in Lakeside cemetery.
   In addition to her two sons, Myron and Harvey, Mrs. Tupper is survived by a
brother, Henry Filley of 
Hemlock, Mich.., a sister, Mrs. Hannah Peaster, of Kalamazoo, Mich., eight
grandchildren and a wide circle of 
warm personal friends.  She was a former member of the local Women's Relief Corps,
as well as a faithful 
member of the Congregational church  All who knew her saw in her a devoted Christian
wife and mother, and 
while grieving at her departure, know that after a well spent life she has gone to
claim a merited reward.
   Those from out of town in attendance at the funeral were; Mr. Martin Tupper,
brother-in-law, and daughter, 
Sarah, of Blanchrd, Mrs. Peter Fender, a nice of Vermontville, and Mr. and Mrs. Tib
Sprinket of Sunfield.

Additional Comments:
          CARD OF THANKS
   We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to the minister, the choir, the Woman's
Relief Corps, and to the 
friends and neighbors who sent flowers or otherwise tendered their assistance and
sympathy at the death of 
our mother.
          Harvey Tupper and family.

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