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CALHOUN COUNTY MICHIGAN CALHOUN COUNTY
The services, in compliance with the often expressed wish of the doctor, were simple, the solemnly beautiful and impressive burial service of the Protestant Episcopal Church only, being read at the house.
A choir consisting of Mrs. T. J. Joy, Miss Louise Skinner, Mr. B. T. Skinner, and Mr. Frank Perry, sang "There is a Light in the Valley" in a very impressive manner, after which the procession to the cemetery was formed in the following
ORDER OF PROCESSION
Officiating Clergyman
Cemetery Board in Carriages
Visiting Physicians
Bearers
Remains
Family and Relatives
Nurse
City Physicians Citizens
The attendance was very large, and embraced not only the late doctor's numerous friends from the city and vicinity but very many physicians from all over the State, who came to register their last mark of respect to their deceased brother's remains.
The arrangements throughout were purely civilian, none of the orders or the profession to which the deceased belonged taking any leading part, but were participated in alike by all the people to whom his useful life and long residence had especially endeared him.
Upon the conclusion of the ceremony at the grave, the funeral cortege returned to the city, where the members disbanded to attend the informal memorial services, which occurred at St. Thomas church.
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