Clare County MI Archives Obituaries.....Orvis, Herbert Abiram May 7, 1942
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undated Clare newspaper clipping
            SHERIDAN TOWNSHIP PIONEER PASSES AWAY THURSDAY, MAY 7TH
       Bert Orvis Succumbs to Long Illness After Living Here Many Years
                     undated Clare newspaper clipping

	Bert Orvis, a life long resident of Sheridan township, passed away 
Thursday, May 8th, following a long illness.

	Bert Orvis, son of James and Martha Orvis, was born in Sheridan 
township, Clare county August 14, 1875, and passed away May 7, 1942, at the 
age of sixty-six years, eight months and twenty-three days.

	In 1915 he was united in marriage to Dora Thorne, of Yorkville, 
Illinois and to this union were born nine children, four boys and five girls.  
One child died in infancy.

	He was a member of a family of eleven children, four sisters and six 
brothers.  Two brothers, James and Claud, preceded him in death.

	He leaves to mourn their loss, the wife, eight children, Mrs. Alice 
Bradley, Grant Township, Mrs. Arbutus Baldwin, of Ithaca, Mrs. Mary Depew, of 
Flint, and Riley, Leo, Elsie, Harold and Richard, at home; eight brothers and 
sisters, Mrs. Della Gerow, of Loomis, William, of Detroit, John, of Battle 
Creek, Mrs. Gettie Langworthy, of Owosso, Mrs. Ethel Kirkpatrick, of Clare, 
Ervin, of Sheridan Township; six grandchildren; besides a host of relatives 
and friends.

	Funeral services were held from the Thurston Funeral Home at 2:00 
o’clock Saturday afternoon, May 9 with Rev. Charles Kleinhardt officiating and 
interment at Cherry Grove cemetery.


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