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Traverse City Record Eagle December 17, 1999 JERRIAN VANDELLEN, M.D., 95, of Traverse City, formerly of Ellsworth, died Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1999, at Birchwood Nursing Center in Traverse City. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Ellsworth Christian Reformed Church. Arrangements by Hastings Funeral Home in Ellsworth. Contributed by Sharon Compton Baatz Traverse City Record Eagle December 3, 1999 A memorial service for SHARON E. (MURRIS) VANDERPOOL has been changed to 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12, 1999, at Maple Forest Township Hall, 8996 N. Sherman Rd., Frederic. Contributed by Sharon Compton Baatz THE EVENING RECORD TRAVERSE CITY, MI 5 APRIL 1901 ESTEEMED WOMAN DEAD Mrs. Henry Voorhees, Respected Pioneer, Passed Away Today After a Lingering Illness Mrs. Henry Voorhees died today after a lingering illness at her home on Washington stret, aged 65. She had suffered intensely for several months and death came as a welcome release. Mrs. Voorhees was born in North Troy, Vt. Her parents were of sturdy New England Scotch-Irish blood, and her ancestors were prominent during the Revolutionary War. She was married to Henry Voorhees in 1841, and they enjoyed a novel wedding tour, riding across the country in a prairie schooner for many miles, with an imigrant train, to join a true state colony in Kansas, in the troubled and exciting days which culminated in the civil war. Not thinking Kansas quite to their mind, they came back as far as Michigan, settling on a farm at Grand River. They came to Grand Traverse in the spring of '74 clearing a house in the midst of the dense forest. For some years past they have spent much of their time at a pleasant home which they purchased on Washington street. Mrs. Voorhees husband and seven children survive her, the latter being Mrs. Elsworth Clark of Ithaca, Mrs. Leslie Crain, Mrs. Chas. Peart?, Mrs. Edmison, the Misses Lucy and Kate, and Theodore Voorhees, of this city. Miss Kate's health has been very poor for some time, and she left for the west only a few days ago with Mrs. Edmison hoping to find renewed strength in the invigorating climate there. Funeral services will be held at the house at 2 p.m. Monday, in charge of H. L. Carter. THE EVENING RECORD TRAVERSE CITY, MI 9 APRIL 1901 IMPRESSIVE SERVICES In Memory of the Late Mrs. E. M. Voorhees Yesterday The funeral of Mrs. E. M. Voorhees took place from her home on Washington street yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The service was impressive and at the same time very sweet and comforting. There was no formality, but her friends gathered around her as if she were living, and indeed she seemed to be only in a sweet and restful sleep among the flowers. Rev. Mr. Cochlin gave a beautiful tribute to her life and character, and read some of her poems, one written shortly before her death in an interval between hours of great pain, with a pathetic refrain, "Sweet is the rest that labor brings." Music was rendered by Mrs. Horst and Mrs. Baclaut, in their usual beautiful fashion. The casket was covered and filled with flowers, many of them loving tributes from friends and neighbors and there were two fine pieces from the Grange and from the Ladies Library Association.