Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Werner-Warner, Marie Alvina Kathrine  September 28, 2008
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Lakewood News – Sat. Oct. 4, 2008

LAKE ODESSA- Marie Alvina Kathrine Werner-Warner of Lake Odessa who was born to 
Ernest Ludwig and Eva Elizabeth Schneider-Werner of Cassel, Germany on 
September 8, 1912, a new day was dawning not only for Marie’s parents but for 
the German people in general. Entering the United States at age eight with her 
mother through Ellis Island two years after Ernest entered through Canada. 
Marie became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1940.

She grew up in Williamston. Marie married Roy Edwin Warner in 1930. Moving to 
Lake Odessa in 1952, she worked at Keahms Five and Dime in Mason and later 
worked at the Five and Dime in Lake Odessa. She became a newspaper reporter and 
wrote for the local papers plus other papers in neighboring state including the 
Chicago Tribune and the Grit. She was active in the Civil Air Patrol with the 
rank of second lieutenant, a member of the Blue Star Mothers, and a member of 
the American Legion Auxiliary. 

Marie did a lot of painting in oils while she and Roy were living in Arizona. 
While in Arizona she worked at the Hasayampa Library and the local tourist 
restaurant stop in Wickenburg. Also both of them lived for a while at the 
Vulture Mine and helped maintain it.

About 20 years ago Roy passed away in Wickenburg and she moved back to Lake 
Odessa. She learned to play the spoons and had worked a bit at the Lake Odessa 
Library. She enjoyed her son Robert’s clogging and went to a lot of their 
clogging shows in the area and played the spoons while the cloggers danced.

On Sunday, September 28, 2008 after a short illness she passed away, at 96 
years of age.

She and Roy had five children, Maxine of Kentucky; Donna, deceased; Patrick, 
deceased; Robert and wife Lynda of Lake Odessa, and Anita and husband Jules 
Fink of Pasadena, CA. There were many grandchildren, great grandchildren and 
great great grandchildren, who loved her and will miss her dearly.

Marie liked the clogging barn and played the spoons there a lot. Marie was an 
independent woman and did what she thought was best. A praying woman.

Her celebration of life service is where she would have liked it to be; in the 
clogging barn in lake Odessa on 1417 Johnson St. The service starts at 3 p.m. 
on Saturday, October 4, 2008.



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