The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-04-13
OBITUaRY.
Be still prepared for death and death or
life shall thereby be the sweeter.-
Shakespeare.

eu III Weu-lOck april OCHs 1000,
to Henry Holmes, who preceded
her to the eternal eight years ago.
next month.
She passed out of this life on
the sixty-seventh anniversary of
her wedding.
The greater part of her life
was lived in Yale and Speaker
where seven of her ten children
were born and reared.
Six children, Mrs. James Nit
chell, of Amadore; Mrs. Ed.
Worden, of Port Huron; Mrs.
John Muir, Valley Centre; Mrs.
Fred M. De Chene, of Detroit;
Jacob H. Holmes, Of Kingston,
and John H. Holmes of Richmond
and twenty-one grand children,
and &c great grand children sur
vive her. Her last days were
full of Christian faith. Just a
short time before the end came
she called her children around
her bed and said to them, "Chil-
dren, l must leave you; live
better life than l have lived, but
| have faith that will be saved.
Ny trust is in Cod"
Fate decreed that we should
sever,
Grieved our souls, no tongue
can tell
And our loving hearts were
parted
That had loved each other we'll.
She was all we had to cherish,
We have bade last adieu.
Still we see in every vision
Silver tresses tied in blue.
Deceased departed this life at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Fred M. DeChene, 251 Alfred
street, Detroit, at 8 p. m, We'd
nesday, April 5, 1922. The body
was brought to Yale on Friday
and funeral services held from
the NJ. P. church at 1890. Rev.
c. F. Stroup. officiating. Burial
in Elmwood cemetery.
Charles Gay Putney was born
at Washington, New York, Decem-
Der 4th, 1866 and died at Okla
homa City, Oklahoma, March 20
1922 in the seth year Of his age.
The June following his birth
he was brought to Michigan by
his parents where he spent his
boyhood days on the old family
homestead in Speaker township,
at which place he received his
common school education. Later
he was graduated from Port HUI
ron high school. A portion of
the two following years was spent
at Fenton Normal School from
which institution he also gradu-
ated.
He then entered the school
teaching profession and later at
tended Alma College and Michi-
gan State Normal at Ypsilanti,
from which he graduated. For a
number of years following he
was again engaged in school
teaching.
In September 1894 he was mar
ried to Jessie A. Moore, to which
union two children were born,
Elmore M. and Mary Marjorie.
He still continued his school
work and became Superintendent
of Schools at Sandusky from
which position he resigned to be-
come County School Commission
er which Office he held for ten
consecutive years. He then serv-
ed one term as State Senator from
the twentieth Michigan district,
at which time he was also pub
Usher of the Jeffersonian at Cros-
we'll, Mich.
Eight years following the death
of his wife he was again united
in marriage November 4th, 1911,
to Martha A. Reed. The year fol-
lowing the family moved to To-
peka, Kansas, where they remain
ed one year. Since that time
eight years, they have resided in
Oklahoma City, where the deceas-
ed was engaged in public well
fare work, being State Superin-
tendent Of Oklahoma Children's
Home Society. In this great work
for the welfare of humanity Mr..
Putney exerted his best and nobl-
est efforts. During this eight
years of tireless service he has
been successful in placing over
fifteen hundred dependent infants
and children in worthy homes.
Through the present organization
which he has so successfully
| builded. the far reaching effects