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BIOGRAPHICAL BLANK FOR THE DETROIT CONFERENCE HisrORI C.AL
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Ulysses Grant Ostrander
Mrs. Grace l\4ae Ostrander
EV. Ulysses Grant Ost1·ander of
Juddville, 88, died June 11, at McLaren General Hospital in Flint. Mr.
Ostrander was born in Ellington November 14, 1869, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Ostrander and lived in the Saginaw-Flint area his entire lifetime. He
married Grace Mae Dilley, June 20,
1895, at Davisburg. . - - - - - - - --,
She preceded him in
death May 5, 1946.
He manied Anna A.
S n y d e r, August 6,
1947 at Juddville.
Converted at the
age of 16, Mr. Ostrander was admitted
to the Methodist
P r o t e s t a n t Confer ence in 1893 and
was appointed to the
Davisburg c h a r g e.
After serving at Goodells, Peck, Fostoria, Ingham , Birch Run, Franklin and
New Lothrop he transferred to the Detroit Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1914 and served at
Saginaw Wanen Ave., Byron, Morrice,
Brighton, Mayville, Lindon, Tuscola,
Akron, Burton and Juddville where he
retired in 1949. His main interest was
evangelism and during his long ministry
conversions to the Christian faith numbered in the hundreds, amon.!!' wl•orn
were many young people "'! 10 • wen~ on
to s e •·vo us minis ters and mi SSIOnanes.
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By W. Clyde Dona ld
N SUNDAY morning, !\lay 5, 1946,
1\Irs. Grace Mae Ostrander, wife of
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Rev. U. Grant Ostrander, pastor of the
Owosso Circuit, was suddenly promoted
from the church militant to the church
triumphant.
Mrs. Ostrander was born on February
2, 1879, at Holl y, Michigan, of Charles
and Melvina Dilley. Soon thereafter,
her p:n:ents moved to Davisbur g,' where
she spent her g idhood years and attended the public schools. At the age of
ten she knelt at the altar of t he Davisburg Methodist Episcopal Church and
publicl y dedicated her life to the Christ
of God, Whom she had always loved.
In 1894, Rev. U . Grant Ostrander was
appointed pastor of the Methodist Protes tant Church in Davisburg. His
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church needed an or ganist and, much
more did he need a• helpmeet in his
MRS. U. G. OSTRANDER
minis terial career. Over in the Methodist Episcopal Church he found the
organis t that his church was seek ing, and of articles for various relig ious
a~d, sur ely led of God, he found the journals and newspapers. As a mother,
g 1rl, whon; on June 20, ~8~5! he wed~ed she brought up her two consecrated
and who JOurne:re? at_ Ins s1de as W1fe, daughters in "the fear and admonition
mother and mm1 sterial hel pmeet for of the Lord." As a minister's wife
almost fifty-one years; nineteen of them for Christ's sake she cheerfully face{
spent in the former Meth~dist Prot.estant the many sacrifices t hat bad to be
Church an d the othe~· thn·ty-two m the made and inspired her husband to beform er Methodist Ep!scopal Church and come daily an ever better mini ster of
the present Methodist Church.
IJes us Christ. As a Christian, she tes Two daughters were born to this un- tified: t"I live, yet not I, but Christ
ion: Mrs. Zada V. Lobb of Linden, liveth in me."
and Mrs. F. Leone Shelley of F lint.
Besides h er husband and her two
On June 20, 1945, R ev. and Mrs. p daughters, she is survived by . seven
Grant Ostrander celebrated their Gold~ grandchildren; four gr eat grandchildren;
en Wedding Anniversary. The Burton a niece, Mrs . Emily Frederickson of PanChurch of the Owosso Circuit was fill- tiac, to whom she proved a m.ot her;
ed vith r elatives and friends, gathet·ed one grandnephew and one grandmece.
f rom a ll pmts of the State of Michigan
The funeral services were held in the
t o wish them well and to express their Burton Methodist Church of the Owosso
appreciation of what this minister and Circuit, on Wednesday afternoon, May
his wife had meant to them. On this 8 at two o'clock, in charge of her dis?ccas1on, Mrs. Ostrander read a n orig- t;·ict s uperintendent, W. Clyde Donald,
mal poem, VTl'itten for this happy event. a ssisted by W. C. S. Pellowe of Port
Once again they stood at the altar of Huron and William E . Harris on of Flint.
th~ church and in the presence of AI- The following ministers were pallbearmlghty God, pledged anew their faith ers : Roy C. Johns, Ben Slates, Clifford
~nd .love to each other. They said: E. Doty, Horace Thurston, Herbert N.
Until death do us pa rt," a nd so it was. Hichens and Clayton F. Oliver. InterThis godly wife of thi s servant of ment took place in th e Linden cemetery.
Christ tfod the paths of r ighteousness
In a bened iction upon this lif e we Pray
and of peac~. She was an able counsel- as s he prayed: "And let the beauty of
lor and worker with youth and with the Lord om God be upon us ; ·And eschildren, S)Y.)nsoring the junior church t a blish th ou the work of our hands
and j unior choirs these many years. upon us; Yea, the work of our hands
vVhere she has labored, present d a y es tablish thou it."
pillars of tl e church ca rry its burdens,
because she trained them in childhood
and prepand them for respons ibility.
She was a writer of poetry, pageants
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l\'Ir. Ostrander is survived by his wife,
Anna A. of Juddville; two daughter s,
Mz·s. Zuda Lobb of Linden and Mrs.
Leone Shelley of Flint; n stepson, Paul
Snyder of Flushing; a s tepdaughter,
Clara 'l'inglan of Mayville; seven g randchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, two
step-grandchildren; a s i s ter, Mrs.
Amelia Hag ue of Jackson ; a nd a brother,
Adelbez·t, of Detro it.
Funeral se rvices were held in t he
Juddville Methodist Chut·ch with Dr.
Ches ter McPheeters, superintendent of
the Flint District, and th e pastor, Rev.
N. D. Cotz·onc, officiating. Burial was
in Linden with Rev. Joh~ Ambler offering t he prayer of committal. The following ministers acted as pall-bearers;
I saac McPhee, Dwight Lawson, Easton
Hazard, Leo Burch, William Combellack
and Homer VanBuren. A prayer service
for the immediate f amily, held at t he
Linden Funer;tJ Home before the funeral
seP;yice, was conducted by a grandson,
]..i~)Jard D, Lobb of Grand Blanc.
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MICHI~J!.N CHRISTIAN ADVOCAn;
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Ostrander, Ulysses G.