August 3, 1941 (Sunday)

MRS. HAROLD WEEKES PASSES

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Another hot day very dry

and no sign of rain.

Men got up at sunrise

and went fishing - but no

luck. Mrs. Alderink and I

slept - I didn't even hear

the breakfast bell. We

left Sable about 11 o'clock

stopped at Pickeral Lake

Lincoln Lake + Pine Island

Lake + Long Lake. Ate dinner

at Baldwin - pork loin

apple sauce, salad, cherry

pie, coffee.

Arrived home at dark.

Alex, Edwina and Clare

here a while this evening.

Morse + Frances came just

as we were going to bed.

They brought Mrs. McCarty

home.

Mrs. Harold Weeks died Sat. Heart

paralysis.

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It sounds as if Edna slept in a little and enjoyed her weekend vacation. After enjoying a dinner in Baldwin then meandering home around several lakes, they returned home to the hustle and bustle of family and friends who all paid visits after 9 PM. (Edna notes that they arrived home from their trip at dark. The sunset at 8:50 PM on August 13, 1941 in Michigan).

Nowadays, dinner is most commonly referred to as the meal we eat at "suppertime" or in the evening. While dinner has traditionally been the largest meal of the day, it has not always been the meal you eat it in evening. For Edna and her family, dinner referred to the largest meal of the day regardless of the time it was consumed. Henry and Edna and the Alderinks at their dinner in Baldwin, Michigan on Sunday, August 3, 1941. They left the cabin in which they spent the weekend at 11 AM. Baldwin was just a short drive from where they stayed. All of the lakes they visited on their way home are places they would have arrived at after departing Baldwin. They enjoyed a lovely dinner, probably sometime around noon—lunchtime.

One thing I really enjoy about Edna's journals (and I enjoy many, many things about them) is getting to know people I haven't heard of before. This journal entry introduced me to Mrs. Caroline (Carrie) Weekes and her family.

Carrie Weekes, was an "esteemed resident" of Lowell, Michigan. She passed away on August 2, 1941. The day after she died, she would have celebrated her 36th anniversary to Harold Weekes.

According to her death certificate, a doctor had been treating Carrie for two weeks prior to her death for a coronary occlusion—an obstruction of the coronary artery.

Carrie, according to her obituary, was the organist for many years at the Methodist church in Lowell. I found this interesting as her father, David B. Davidson was a reverend for the Baptist Church in Lowell. Her marriage to Harold Weekes is what brought her to the Methodist Church. Harold was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church.

Caroline's father, Rev. D.B. Davidson, died twenty years before her on February 6,1917.

Davidson, according to his obituary, "was an active minister of the Gospel for 36 years in Canada and Michigan."

He served many Michigan communities including Pewamo, Mt. Pleasant, Charlotte, Vernon, Alpena, Lyons, and three years in Lowell (1900-1903).

Harold Weekes, Carrie's husband was the son of Lowell merchant A.W. Weekes.

According to Lowell: 100 Years of History, 1831-1931, Augustus W. Weekes was born in Keene township, Lowell on May 27, 1850, and "lived the life of a farmer’s boy until he was eighteen. At the age of fourteen he tried to enlist in the army, but was rejected on account of his youth. He attended the district school, the Grand Rapids High School and the Michigan Agricultural College; teaching during the Winter to defray his expenses."

In 1874, Augustus married Henrietta Bailey. They had two children, a daughter, Ora, and a son, Harold. Augustus first entered the dry goods business before marrying Henrietta. He eventually opened his own store on Main Street in Lowell, A.W. Weekes.

In addition to his career in the dry goods business, The elder Mr. Weekes was also a politician. He served as supervisor of Lowell township for five terms. In 1892, he was elected to the House of Representatives and served the second representative district for three terms. In 1900, he was elected as State Senator from the Seventeenth district and served two terms.

Augustus Weekes died on August 7, 19\

Harold L. Weekes was born on February 20, 1882. He attended Lowell High School, leaving at the end of his junior year to attend Ferris Institute. Upon completion of his course of study he entered his father’s store as dry goods clerk, eventually coming on as a full partner and, upon the death of his father, sole proprietor.

Like his father, Harold had political aspirations. He served as township treasurer two terms, served as village trustee seven years and two terms as school trustee.

Less than two years after the passing of his wife Carrie, Harold was united in marriage to Mrs. Lenna Anderson.

Lenna was the daughter of Joseph Yeiter and Alida Campbell. She was married to Dr. Charles Anderson, M.D., on 28 June 1911 and the couple had one daughter, Dorothy, born in 1914 in Lowell, MI.

Harold Weekes died on June 2, 1947

Lenna died on May 28, 1951.

Carrie and Harold Weekes are buried next to one another in Oakwood Cemetery in Lowell.

Lenna and her first husband Charles are buried next one another in Oakwood Cemetery in Lowell. Lenna's grave marker is engraved with both of her married names. Lenna Anderson Weekes.