Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....BUCHAN, JAMES NORMAN May 16, 1953
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Gladwin County Record dated 05-20/1953 Column - 4 Page - 1
LONG ILLNESS FATAL TO JOHN BUCHAN

   James Norman Buchan, 61, veteran of World War I, passed away Saturday, May 
16, at Saginaw Veterans' Hospital, where he had been a patient for four 
months. He had been in ill health for the past several years. The son of the 
late John and Lucy Buchan, he was born Aug. 1, 1892, at Benzonia. On January 
3, 1919, he was married to the former Gertrude Ladd, of Beaverton. 
   Mr. Buchan worked in the engineering field and with Mrs. Buchan spent 10 
yeas as helpers at the Indian Reservation at Mt. Pleasant. After leaving there 
they came to Beaverton and Mr. Buchan was employed by the Austin Construction 
Company in Midland until he was forced by ill health to remain at home. 
Surviving are his wife, Gertrude; two foster sons, Frank Bigelow of Epoufette 
and Earl Bigelow of Stanton; and one sister, Mrs. Willis Pratt, of Midland; 
also six grandchildren.
   Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the First Presbyterian 
church in Beaverton with the Rev. John K. Osborn officiating. The rites were 
under the auspices of the V.F.W., of which he was a member. Interment was made 
in the Beaverton cemetery. Pallbearers were Chris Welker, Gordon Morris, Lloyd 
Hagenbaugh, Lloyd Cady, Cecil McKellar, Robert Brown. 

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