Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....STERLING, JOHN January 30, 1941
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Gladwin County Record dated 02-05/1941 Column - 1 Page - 4
BILLINGS PIONEER DIES THURSDAY

   Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Dale Methodist Church 
for John Sterling, 72, Billings township pioneer, who died Thursday morning 
after an illness of more than a year. The Rev. Harold Hodgson officiated at 
the rites and burial was in the Dale cemetery. Mr. Sterling was born in 
Blenheim, Ontario, on August 15, 1868. He married Miss Anna Colbeck in 1888 
and they resided near Lemington, Ontario.
   The Sterlingss came to Gladwin county and settled on their place in 
Billings township in 1900. Mr. Sterling was always prominent in community 
affairs and held several township offices. Survivors in addition to his wife 
are a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Dunham, of Caro; four sons, Roy, of Beaverton; 
Percy, of Hope; Homer, of Flint; Kenneth, of Hope; and a brother, George 
Sterling, of British Columbia. 

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