Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....FIKE, IRA February 9, 1947
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Gladwin County Record dated 02-19/1947 Column - 1 Page - 2
SERVICES TODAY FOR IRA FIKE

   Ira Fike, 70, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Roy Bender in Saginaw, 
on Sunday, February 9. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 
o'clock at the Beaverton Church of the Brethren, with burial in the Dale 
cemetery. Rev. E. S. Hollinger will officiate.
   Mr. Fike was born in West Virginia on March 12, 1877. He and his wife made 
their home on a farm just south of Beaverton for about 37 years. Surviving are 
his wife, Laura; also several sons and daughters. Gladwin County Record dated 
02-12/1947 Column - 4 Page - 1

IRA FIKE BURIED IN DALE CEMETERY

   Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday, February 12, by Rev. 
E. S. Hollinger, for Ira Fike, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Roy 
Bender in Saginaw, Sunday, February 9. Burial was made the Dale Cemetery. Mr. 
Fike was born March 12, 1877, in West Virginia and moved to Michigan with his 
parents when he was 12 years old. He married Miss Laura Castle and in 1910 
they moved near Beaverton on a farm in Beaverton township, and made their home 
here until April 1946, when they moved to Saginaw.
   Surviving besides the widow are two sons, Elmer and Clarence both of 
Saginaw; three daughters, Mrs. Jessie Bender, Mrs. Ida Shoup and Mrs. Myrtle 
Williams, all of Saginaw. There was also a foster daughter, Miss Coleen 
Roback, who has lived with the Fikes since she was two days old. There are 
three brothers, Job and Jasper of Blissfield, and William of Coleman; one 
sister, Mrs. Lorenca Stuart of Blissfield; also seven grandchildren. Gladwin 
County Record dated 02-19/1947 Column - 1 Page - 2


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