Mrs. Helen Clements Church died at 6pm last evening of apoplexy. She was on Cedar St north yesterday afternoon at 2pm and feeling ill stepped into the house of John Marshall, 140 Cedar St. North. She told Mrs. Marshall, a stranger, that her head pained her and if anything happened to send her to the Van Dyne house. She soon became unconscious. Drs. Tooker and Campbell were called who pronounced the illness apoplexy. At 5:30 she was removed to the Van Dyne house, where Dr. Nottingham, who was subsequently called, also pronounced the case hopeless.
She died half an hour later. The deceased lived with her mother, Mrs. J. H. Clements, at the hotel. She had been a resident of Lansing since 1848. Her father J.H. Clements, who died over a year ago, was a pioneer of this city.
Mrs. Church was the picture of health and had never been ill before. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. J.C. McMichael of Alanson and a mother and two brothers.
Funreral at 10am Thur at the Van Dyne house. Burial at Mt. Hope.