Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Abfalter, Frank 1961 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net October 15, 2014, 3:07 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 21 Jul 1961 Frank Abfalter, 89, 632 Union street died at 7 o’clock Friday morning at Ionia County Memorial hospital. He had been a patient since June 7. The son of Jacob and Anna May Fry Abfalter, he had spent almost his entire life in Ionia. He was born at Westphalia, March 23, 1872, and was married in Ionia November 1895 to Katherine Kalkofen. She died in November 1959. Mr. Abfalter was a cigar maker by profession. He had also worked as a steward at the Elks Lodge and Ionia Country club. He was a member of SS. Peter and Paul church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Reno Root of Lansing, Mrs. Raymond Lapo of Lake Odessa, and Mrs. Fred Thwaites of Ionia; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Rosary will be recited at Boynton funeral home at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Funeral mass will be at SS. Peter and Paul church Monday at 9 a.m., with interment at Mt. Olivet cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/a/abfalter28883nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb