Grand Traverse County MI Archives Obituaries.....Voice, Maurice P.  November 15, 1955
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Record-Eagle November 18, 1955
Maurice Voice, 57, prominent Fife Lake business died of a heart attack while 
hunting in Fife Lake township Thursday afternoon.

Hunting with James Taylor and Andrew Wyse, both of Dearborn. Mr. Voice left the 
party around two o'clock Thursday afternoon to track a deer. His body was found 
about eight o'clock Thursday evening in a fire land by Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
Daniels of Fife Lake. Dr. G. Edward Strokes, coroner of this city, was summoned 
and announced death was due to natural causes, probably a heart attack.

Mr. Voice was born January 4, 1898, in Denver, Colorado. In 1910 he came with 
his parents to Kingsley and settled on a farm.

In November 22, 1924, he was united in marriage to Lillian Stampfler of Fife 
Lake and to this union were born two children. A son died in infancy.

Mr. Voice operated the Voice Brothers auto sales in Fife Lake for 35 years and 
sold cars and trucks for 27 years. He was a member of the county board of 
education from the time of its organization and served on the Fife Lake School 
Board for 18 years. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Fife 
Lake American Legion. He was also a member of the Fife Lake Order of the Odd 
Fellows No. 359. He had handled the wholesale delivery of Detroit, Grand Rapids 
and Chicago Sunday papers since 1935.

Surviving, besides his widow, Lillian, are one son at home; one brother, Ernest 
Voice of Kingsley, two sister[s], Mr. Florence Baldwin of Kingsley, and Mrs. 
Laura Courtade of Charlevoix; and many other relatives.

Mr. Voice was taken to the Smith Funeral Home in Kingsley and will be returned 
to his home in Fife Lake Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m.. At 12:30 p.m. Sunday 
the body will be removed to the Fife Lake Methodist church where it will lie in 
state until time of services at 2:30 p.m. Dr. Howard Towne of the First 
Congregational church will officiate, assisted by Rev Edward Eidens of the Fife 
Lake Methodist church.

The funeral service will be under the auspices of the Fife Lake Order of the 
Odd Fellows. Interment will be made in Fife Lake Cemetery.

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