Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Vance, Arthur D. August 19, 1923
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Ionia County News- Thurs. August 23, 1923

Former Pewamo Boy Dies After Long Illness
Mrs. Katherine Vance, of Pewamo, was advised Monday that her son Art D. Vance, had 
passed away Sunday morning at the hospital at Poughkepsie, N. Y., where he had been
for over a year following a nervous breakdown due to overwork.

The remains will be shipped to Pewamo and funeral services held, contingent upon
arrival of the body, possibly this afternoon, from the Methodist church in Pewamo.

Art. D. Vance was the youngest son of William and Katherine Vance, pioneer residents
of East Plains, Lebanon township, Clinton county. As a member of the famous Lebanon
band he became proficient in music and after the band had broken up followed music as a 
profession in wider circles. For a number of years he was connected with some of the
largest bands in the country.

From that work it was only natural the he graduate into vaudeville work and at the
time he was stricken down he was playing the Keith circuit.

Ionia County News- Thurs. Aug. 30, 1923

Funeral Services For Arthur Vance Were held last Thursday
Funeral services for the late Arthur D. Vance, whose death occurred at Poughkepsie,
N.Y., on Sunday morning, August 19, were held last Thursday from the M.E. church at
Pewamo.

Rev. Mather, pastor of the church, officiated. Burial was made in the family lot in
East Plains cemetery, which is the  burying ground for several generations of the Vance family,
several of the brothers having settled in that part of Lebanon in the early days of the
township.

Arthur D. Vance was born in East Plains on July 24, 1876. He received his education
in the district school at a short distance from the old homestead on the Pewamo-Hubbardston

road, later going to the public schools at Hubbardston,. many years ago the family
left the farm, just south of Matherton, and came to Pewamo to reside, William Vance, father
of the deceased, passing away several years ago, William Vance, Jr., was killed while
working with a telephone crew outside Chicago about fifteen years ago, Mrs. Katherine Vance is
the sole surviving member of the family.

Those to attend the obsequies last Thursday were Mrs. Emmett Vance and Mrs. Oscar 
Crane, of Lyons;  Mrs. Blanche Kellogg, of Lowell; Glen Ernst of Flint;  Mrs. George
Burhans and Mr. And Mrs.George Amsden, of Lansing; John Domny and daughter, and Mrs. Lillian
Gibson of Detroit.

Additional Comments:
East Plains Cem.

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