Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Banhagel, Gerald December 17, 1930
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Ionia Sentinel Standard-Mon. Dec. 22, 1930

CHURCH FILLED FOR BANHAGEL RITES MONDAY
Hundreds throng SS Peter and Paul's for Requiem for Youth Fatally Injured in Hunting
Tragedy.

The church of SS Peter and Paul was filled Monday morning with hundreds of sorrowing
relatives, friends and acquaintances who gathered fro the funeral services for
Gerald Banhagel. 19 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Banhagel, fatally wounded last 
Wednesday in a hunting accident.

Every seat in the edifice was filled with pupils and classmates of the Academy
occupying a large portion of the middle aisle and the east transept, the balance being given
over to the mourners and others.

Solemn Requiem High Mass was offered by Rev. Fr. Joseph A. Maler, assisted by Rev.
Fr. William J. O'Rourke, of Portland, as deacon and Rev. Fr. Patrick K. Brannon as
sub-deacon, and Anthony Brakora acted as master of ceremonies. Acolytes were Harry and John
Carten, Edgar Miller, Robert Beahan, John Long and Kenneth Antcliff.

In silent testimony to the love and admiration borne for the youth, whose sudden
death came just as he was reaching the more serious stage of life and as he began reaping
the fruits and joy of exceptional success upon the athletic field, were floral offerings
piled high upon the casket, and in separate baskets adorning the communion rail.

Eight members of the Academy's 1930 football team bore the remains of their captain
to the grave in the family lot in Mt. Olivet cemetery. They were Roland and Raymond
Burrows, Fred Gierman, Charles Carten, Louis Vaydik, Kenneth Hadley, Charles Kelley, and
Eugene Slowinski.

The floral tributes were in charge of Misses Doris and Francis Kelley.
Using the text. "He was taken away lest wickedness should alter his understanding,
lest deceit should beguile his soul." Fr. Maier in his sermon stated that while Gerald's
tragic death caused a pall of sadness to fall upon that community, there was a wide degree
of comfort in the realization that his life had been such that he was amply prepared to
meet his maker. Fr. Maier dwelt upon the youth's extensive popularity among the people of
the city, young and old, and of the deep fellowship that surrounded him among hundreds
of his schoolmates.

Among those from out of town who attended the services were Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Keenan
and two children; Genevieve and Charles of Jackson: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wood of Port
Huron; Mr. and Mrs. Theophile Banhagel and daughters, Mildred, Ruth and Helen of 
Lansing: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Banhagel and two children of Port Huron: Mrs. Scott and
Fred Meade of Belding and William J. Rutley of Lansing.

Additional Comments:
Mt. Olivet Cem.-#B-144

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