Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Altenburg, Russell 1929 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net August 24, 2010, 5:55 pm The Ionia County News, Thursday, March 28, 1929 Word of the tragic death Wednesday of the six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Q. Altenburg, former Ionians, was received in a telegram last night by Mr. Altenburg’s sister, Mrs. Eugene Cottrell, E. Main street. The little boy, Russel, was burned to death when a barn in which he was playing was destroyed by fire. Mr. Altenburg was for years an accountant in the Pere Marquette freight office here. He moved to Lakeview some six years ago and later to Brown City, Mich., where he is the Pere Marquette agent and where the tragedy took place. Mr. Altenburg was a member of the Masonic order and of the Eastern Stars here and was widely acquainted throughout the city. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/a/altenbur8643nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb