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OBITUARY -
Funeral Services for Margaret Jean Dye will be held at the Berg Funeral Home in Kalkaska, on May 31, at 2 o'clock, p.m. Mrs. Dye passed away at South Side District Hospital, Mesa, Arizona, on Feb. 17, 1953. She had been in poor health and she and Mr. Dye had gone from Florida to Arizona for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Dye had made their home in South Miami Florida from 1923 to July, 1952. Prior to going to Florida in 1923 they had lived in Roscommon, Michigan for about eight years where Mr. Dye had the Ford Agency.
Margaret Jean McClelland was born in South Boardman, Michigan February 6, 1886. At the age of 12 she joined the East Boardman Methodist Church. She was active in church work all her life. She was graduated from Kalkaska County Normal, class of 1904, and the following six years taught school in Kalkaska County. On August 4, 1910, she was united in marriage to John H. Dye at Spirit Lake, Idaho. In 1915 Mr. and Mrs. Dye returned to Michigan and made thier home at Roscommon until they went to Florida in 1923. In Sept. 1952, they had gone to Arizona where it was hoped a drier climate might improve her health.
Mrs. Dye was a talented musician and devoted church worker. She sang in the choir at Bonners Ferry, Idaho, from 1910 to 1913, in the choir at Roscommon from 1915 to 1923, in the choir at White Temple Methodist Church, Miami, and the First Methodist Church at South Miami for several years. She organized the South Miami Church Home Department and built it to the largest Home Department in the State of Florida. She was a life member of O.E.S. Fidelity Chapter No. 50 at Roscommon, and was a member of the South Miami Methodist Church at the time of her death.
Besides her husband, John H. Dye, to mourn her loss are three brothers and one sister, George C. McClelland of Kalamazoo, William McClelland of Rainy River Ontario, John L. McClelland of Battle Creek, and Mrs. W. F. Hunter of Rosebush, Mich. besides many friends in every community where she had lived.
Rev. C.B. Lyon, pastor of the First Christian Church of Battle Creek, and former pastor at Roscommon will conduct the funeral services. Interment will be at Lodi Cemetery. - Leader and Kalkaskian, May 21, 1953
Information courtesy Leader and Kalkaskian, www.upnorthpub.com
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1886 - 1953 (67 years)