Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bacon, George 1967
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Ionia Sentinel – 2 August 1967
Funeral services for George Bacon, former Ionia resident and Michigan 
reformatory employee, will be Saturday at 1 pm at the Patience Montgomery 
funeral home in Jackson.  The funeral home is on First Street.  Burial will be 
in Woodland cemetery in Jackson.  Bacon was supervisor of records and 
identification at Michigan Reformatory from 1933 to 1947, although he took a 
military leave of absence during World War II.  He began his work at Southern 
Michigan prison in Jackson as assistant deputy warden in 1947 and later was 
promoted to deputy warden.

Bacon died of an apparent heart attack some time Wednesday afternoon.  He had 
taken his axe into the woods surrounding his summer home at Mio early 
Wednesday afternoon and was later discovered by a neighbor near the house.  
Bacon had been retired from the prison since May 25, 1966.  Surviving are his 
wife, the former Ila Purdy of Orleans; two sons, William , a 1967 graduate of 
Cornell and a graduate student at Wayne State university, and Judd, an 
attorney with Consumer’s Power company in Jackson, a granddaughter, two 
sisters and a brother.




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