Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bakeman, William H. 1918
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Belding Banner-News, 23 Oct 1918

Fourth Home Soldier Dies In Army Camps

The remains of William Bakeman, aged 21 years, who died Monday morning at 6
o’clock in the hospital at Ann Arbor, where he had been taken for treatment
following his coming down with influenza which developed into pneumonia, arrived
in this city on the 5:40 train Tuesday evening and were taken to the undertaking
rooms of the Miller & Harris Furniture Co., where they were held until this
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock and then taken out to Riverridge cemetery,
where they were interred.

Will Bakeman was a splendid young man, the son of Mr. and Mrs. August Bakeman,
of the North side and only recently was home for a short furlough.  He was in
the training detachment at Ann Arbor at the time he was taken sick.  His parents
had been down to see him when they were notified that he was ill and later
received a telegram that he was dead.  Owing to the fact that he had three
brothers and sisters sick at home, his remains were not taken there but were
taken from the undertaking rooms to the cemetery, where Rev. Norton held a brief
prayer service.

In honor of the dead soldier, the flags in the city went at half mast and the
stores and business places of the city were closed between the hours of 2:30 and
3:30, the time of the funeral.


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