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Event: Type: Obituary
Note: MRS. D. A. BLODGETT
Mrs. Jennie S., wife of Mr. D. A. Blodgett, who died Oct. 23,
1890, in Grand Rapids was born in Lycoming County, Penn., Aug.
26, 1841, and was the only daughter of John and Clara L. Wood.
On the 9th of September, 1859, she was married to Mr. Blodgett
at Woodstock, Ill., where her parents were then residing. She
came at once with her husband to her new home at Hersey, in
this State, where she continued to live until the family moved
to Grand Rapids in the fall of 1881, and since then Grand
Rapids has been her home.

She leaves, besides her husband, two children, John W., and
Susan Richmond, wife of Mr. Edward Lowe. Her mother still
survives her, and she has had a most happy home with her the
greater portion of the time since she was married.

Mrs. Blodgett was a woman of great breadth of view, of
remarkable grasp of business and the larger affairs of life and
the world. Her husband valued and sought her counsel in all the
cares of business, and in her found not only an unfailing
friend but a helpmeet in the truest sense of that homely but
admirable word. She was so fully conversant with his interests
and plans that she could and did act for him in many important
matters of practical detail on many occasions. While attending
to all her other duties of wife and mother she always found
time to cheerfully share in his plans, labor and triumphs.

She had an abiding and hearty interest in the progress of the
world, in the development and betterment of mankind. She read
and thought on topics of this nature to a degree and with a
pleasure not often seen in one of her sex.

Yet while she was of a particularly strong, broad cast of mind,
she was one of the most simple and unaffected of women. She had
a passionate love of the good, the true and the beautiful in
nature and in art. She had read much, of the best books, and
often counseled her children and friends in literature, always
with wisdom and tact. She had rare good taste, and innate
judgment in art--her friends came to rely implicitly on it. The
beauties of the flowers, of the birds, of the fields and the
forests appealed to her most strongly. The robins found a dish
of water, fresh for them, daily, on the lawn at her home, and
knew perfectly well how welcome they were. She petted animals;
and above all she loved children. Not a few of the little
folks in our city had learned that fact and watched lovingly
for her coming and going before her long illness prevented her
showing them how truly she enjoyed their smiles and affection.

She was thoughtful of others, always to the utter exclusion of
herself. During all her long illness, and intense suffering,
not a complaint, not a murmur escaped from her; she thought
only of making those about her happy. That the world was shut
out from her eyes did not prevent her thought of striving, for
the pleasures of seeing beautiful things, for others, nor
caused her ever to advert to her own blindness. But a few days
ago, hearing of illness in the family of a friend----she had
not been told of the death----she desired a delicacy sent to
them, and told what dish it should be carried upon "because
food is so much more appetizing from pretty dishes, you know."
This little incident is the key note of her character and
nature---tells as well as volumes could, of the one whose loss
is irreparable to her and more precious as time recalls to them
the value of the lessons of her loving and her life.

She had their most ardent devotion in life. Every other
interest was subordinated sacrificed by husband and children,
to add to her comfort, to afford her relief. Now that rest has
come to her, they cannot regret it---they loved her too
well---but no words can express their sense of loneliness and
loss, and their friends can only point to the spirit she
manifested as the true example for them, to make life the
better for others because she had lived.

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Blodgett, John Wood {I4451} (b. )

Reference: 4451

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Abrahamson, ? {I4452} (b. )

Source: (Name)
Title: Obituary
Abbreviation: Obituary
Page: August Laude

Reference: 4452

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Blundell, George {I4453} (b. 1877, d. 1956)

Source: (Name)
Title: Obituary
Abbreviation: Obituary
Page: William Frederick Paasch

Source: (Name)
Title: Obituary
Abbreviation: Obituary
Page: Nellie Elizabeth Paasch

Source: (Birth)
Title: Tombstone
Abbreviation: Tombstone

Birth: 1877

Death: 1956

Burial: Center Riverton Cemetery, Mason Co, Michigan

Reference: 4453

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Anthony, Chesley {I4454} (b. 04 APR 1897, d. 23 DEC 1953)

Note: Died of a heart attack.

Source: (Name)
Title: Obituary
Abbreviation: Obituary
Page: William Frederick Paasch

Birth: 04 APR 1897 Mason Co, Michigan

Death: 23 DEC 1953 Ludington, Mason Co, Michigan

Burial: AFT 23 DEC 1953 Brookside Cemetery, Mason Co, Michigan

Reference: 4454

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Paasch, Mary {I4455} (b. )

Source: (Name)
Title: Obituary
Abbreviation: Obituary
Page: William Frederick Paasch

Birth: Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Reference: 4455

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Fritseh, ? {I4456} (b. )

Source: (Name)
Title: Obituary
Abbreviation: Obituary
Page: William Frederick Paasch

Reference: 4456

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Paasch, Minnie {I4457} (b. )

Source: (Name)
Title: Obituary
Abbreviation: Obituary
Page: William Frederick Paasch

Birth: Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Reference: 4457

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Haft, ? {I4458} (b. )

Source: (Name)
Title: Obituary
Abbreviation: Obituary
Page: William Frederick Paasch

Reference: 4458

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Paasch, Lena {I4459} (b. )

Source: (Name)
Title: Obituary
Abbreviation: Obituary
Page: William Frederick Paasch

Reference: 4459

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Laidlaw, Emory {I4460} (b. )

Reference: 4460

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