Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Allen, Edward H. 1949
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, February 17, 1949
Coroner Dale Kauffman and Prosecutor Flint Watt decided Monday to hold an 
inquest into an auto accident at Lyons Saturday night that brought instant 
death to Edward H. (Ted) Allen, 84, Lyons.  They set the date for next 
Tuesday, Feb. 22.  The affair will be held at 2 p.m. at the Shaw-Rivett 
Funeral Home at Muir.  A coroner’s jury that Kauffman impaneled the night of 
the accident viewed the body there and also the accident scene.

According to Deputy Omer Postle and Undersheriff Michael Brindle, who 
investigated, Allen was killed when he walked past a diagonally parked car at 
the main downtown street intersection in Lyons and then along the street with 
his back to an approaching auto driven by Robert Ralph, 19, Lyons.  Ralph’s 
car hit him and Allen suffered a broken neck.

Prosecutor Watt stated that those who would be summoned for the inquest in 
addition to the officers involved would be Ralph, Ralph’s wife, Barbara; the 
latter’s mother and sister, Mrs. James McCue and Marilyn McCue, who were 
riding with him; one eye-witness to the accident and another spectator who 
arrived shortly afterward.

Ralph and his wife, who had been married only the previous week, were en route 
to a wedding reception for them at a church parsonage at the time of the 
accident.

Funeral services for Allen were held Tuesday afternoon from the Shaw-Rivett 
Funeral Home, Muir.  Burial was in Lyons cemetery.



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