Mary J. Kyser was born in Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 1, 1852.
With her parents she moved to Berlin township, Ionia
ounty, where she resided until her marriage with Daniel 
Misner, of Lowell, Nov. 28, 1869.  To this union was born
one son, Edward D. Misner, lately of California.  After 
the death of her husband in 1879 she made her home with 
her parents until her marriage with Stephen A. Ware, of
Boston township, Ionia county, which occurred Sept. 28, 1888.
To this union was born one daughter, Jessie Audie Ware, 
who preceded her mother to the better land in her 17th 
year, Oct. 7, 1908 and for whom she has always mourned, 
her great consolation in her last illness was that she 
would soon be with Jessie.  

She peacefully fell asleep to awake in her heavenly home, 
Sept. 20, 1919, aged 67 years and 19 days.  She leaves to 
mourn: her devoted husband, two stepsons, for whom she 
cared with a mother’s love, her son Edward and wife, who 
has proved a tender and loving daughter, being ever constant 
and devoted attendant on her last illness, one grand son, 
Gerald Misner, and a loving granddaughter, Vertrice, who 
has been a ray of sunshine to brighten her last days, two 
brothers, Charles Kyser of Lowell, and Albert Kyser of 
Buffalo, N.Y., who mourns a loving and beloved sister, several 
nephews and nieces who will miss the kind words of Aunt Male, 
as she was familiarly called, also a large circle of life 
long friends and relatives who pay tribute to her kind and 
loving disposition, always thoughtful for the comfort and 
welfare of others.  Their consolation: what is their loss 
is her gain.

The funeral service was held from the home Monday afternoon, 
Sept. 22, Rev. Lash, of Lowell, officiating.  She was laid 
to rest in the South Boston cemetery by the side of her 
daughter Jessie.

The singer and songs were her request, the same as at her 
daughter’s funeral 11 years ago, Miss Anna Maynard, accompanied 
by Mr. Stocking at the piano. The pall bearers were also
the same, six sons of her brother, Charles Kyser.  
Friends and relatives attended the funeral from Lansing, Hastings, 
Ionia, Clarksville, Lowell and Chicago."

Source: The Lowell Ledger, September 25, 1919, Ionia County MI 
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