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Building Name: First United Methodist Church

City: Grand Ledge

Window Shape: 3 (arched)

Date of Window: 1912

Subject/Title of Window: Lawrence/Walsh Window

Brief Description of Subject: From the booklet, "First United Methodist Church, Grand Ledge, Michigan. Walking Tour Guide of the Stained Glass Windows," by C. Bernard Johnson (1994).
THE WINDOW GIVEN BY ALETTA LAWRENCE AND GLADYS WALSH IS LOCATED IN THE CLOAK ROOM NEXT TO THE RONT ENTRANCE FROM SCOTT STREET.

Aletta Lawrence was a social worker at the Y.W.C.A. in Lansing. She was a sister fot Valentine Lawrence who in 1918 bought B.B. Simons Grocery and renamed it The Lawrence Market. He had the first electric refrigeration in Grand Ledge. Valentine was the father of Ralph Lawrence, a long time city employee. Aletta united with the church in 1903, after moving here from Canada. She was very active in the local church work, until she went to First Church in Lansing, to be a parish worker. In 1930 she became a special girls worker in the Y.W.C.A. Aletta married Albert Hunter of The Hunter Brothers Market in 1947 and continued her work with a number of important Lansing organizations. She died in 1958 at 70 years of age.

Gladys Walsh was a school teacher. Her parents, James and Inez Walsh, moved to Grand Ledge in 1910 and Gladys came from Traverse City to be with the family and continue teaching in the public schools. Gladys married Mark Doty in 1915, the same year that Mark opened Doty Greenhouse. Their son is Dean Doty. Mark and Gladys left the church because the Winfield sisters, L. Belle and Ruby, objected to their dancing at The I.T. Club.

Aletta and Gladys said they bought the window in the Men's Cloak Room because both of them were unmarried and looking for husbands.


Inscriptions: Aletta Lawrence
Gladys Walsh


Condition of Window: Fair

Height: 3'8"

Width: 1'9"

Type of Glass and Technique: Opalescent Glass, Lead Came

Lawrence/Walsh Window
Lawrence/Walsh Window

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