Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....FORTNER, JOSEPH April 8, 1994 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Thomas Ladner tomdladner@yahoo.com May 6, 2008, 5:56 am Gladwin County Recod dated 04-13/1994 Column - 3 Page - 2 Joseph Fortner, 80, of Gladwin, died Friday, April 8, 1994, in the Gladwin Nursing Home after a long illness. Born in Hoboken, N.J., on Dec. 14, 1913, he had spent most of his life in Gladwin County. Mr. Fortner worked at the First State Savings Bank of Gladwin for many years and retired from Robinson Industries in 1979. He served in the Army during World War II and wa a member of the First United Methodist Church and the Gladwin County V.F.W. Post. Mr. Fortner and the former Mary Ruth Paxton were married Aug. 10, 1941, in Gladwin. She preceded him in death in May 1988. Surviving are one son, Dennis of Prescott; one daughter, Jane Baumann of Remus; 3 sisters, Elizabeth Fortner of Gladwin, Ann Strouse of Hammond, Ind. and Emma Mica of Santa Anna, Calif.; and one brother, Fred of East Tawas. Services were held Saturday at 11 a.m. from the Hall Funeral Home, Gladwin Chapel with the Rev. Deane Wyllys officiating. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/gladwin/obits/f/fortner4276gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb