Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Whiting, Louis 1924
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, January 10, 1924

Last Wednesday morning a little group gathered at the Bradley-Sparks chapel to 
hear the last few words spoken over all that remained of Louis Whiting, oldest 
inmate of the State hospital, who died December 26, and whose remains were 
held at the mortuary pending the effort made by Dr. Haskell to save them from 
being taken to the dissecting rooms at the University hospital at Ann Arbor.

Rev. Joseph H. Green officiated at the simple service and later the little 
party wended their way to Highland Park, where the interment took place.  
Whiting was the oldest inmate at the hospital, probably not only in age but in 
the number of years he has been a patient.  The hospital was opened for use in 
September, 1885.  In December of that year Whiting came as one of the first 
patients and remained through all the years until his death a few days ago.

Dr. Haskell speaks of him as having been trustworthy, that he was a hard 
working patient and to have sent his remains to a dissecting room would have 
been a travesty.  When Whiting was received here he possessed $2,200, which 
long ago was absorbed by the state.  When he died Dr. Haskell appealed to 
Ormal B. Fuller and the latter saw that Whiting was decently buried at state 
expense.


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