Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Banhagel, Elizabeth N. December 15, 1940
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The Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, December 16, 1940
Mrs. George R. Banhagel, 50, died at her home, 148 East Lincoln Avenue, early 
Sunday morning of a glandular disorder after an illness of more than a year.  
She had been seriously ill for the past several weeks.  

Requiem Mass will be offered Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock at the church of SS. 
Peter and Paul in Ionia.  Interment will be at the family lot at Mt. Olivet 
cemetery in Ionia.  

Mrs. Banhagel was the daughter of Frank and the late Lillian Leary, and she 
was born on a farm in Boston township July 30, 1890.  She had spent a major 
portion of her life in Ionia County.  She attended the Waterville district 
school; and later Saranac high school.  For several years prior to her 
marriage in 1916 to George R. Banhagel, former Ionia newspaper correspondent, 
Mrs. Banhagel had served as chief operator of the Otsego and Saranac telephone 
exchanges.  

Surviving with the husband is her daughter, Elizabeth Ann; her father, Fran 
Leary, of Boston township; a brother, Leslie Leary of Lowell, and four 
sisters, Mrs. Flossie Vandenberg of Kalamazoo; Mrs. Ivah Davis and Mrs. 
Georgia Fox, of Detroit; and Mrs. Gladys Cahoon, of Saranac.

Subsequent publication – Tuesday, December 17, 1940

Requiem Mass was offered Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock at SS. Peter and Paul 
church for Mrs. Elizabeth N. Banhagel, wife of George R. Banhagel, whose death 
occurred Sunday morning at her home, 148 East Lincoln avenue.  Rev. Fr. John 
S. Fons officiated and interment was at Mt. Olivet cemetery.

Robert Burns, Gerald Burns, Paul Gammage, Rex O’Connor and Louis Powell were 
the acolytes who assisted at the Mass.  Bearers were Ben Banhagel, J. R. 
Magney, S. Bruce O’Connell, Harry H. Gemuend, and Clarence A. Koerber of 
Ionia, and Allan S. McCurdy of Grand Rapids.  Floral arrangement was in charge 
of Mrs. Fern Banhagel, Mrs. Myrtie Boardman and Mrs. Mina Underwood, assisted 
by Martin Rivett and Max Koss.

Among the many attending the services from Ionia were the members of the 
seventh and eight grades of SS. Peter and Paul academy, class and school mates 
of Miss Betty Ann Banhagel.  Attending the services from away were Mr. and 
Mrs. Ernest Davis, Mrs. George Fox and sons, Douglass and Donald, Mrs. Edward 
Banhagel, Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Banhagel and daughter, Virginia, Mr. and Mrs. 
Louis P. Banhagel, Mrs. Genevieve Begin and Mrs. Dennis Menard of Detroit; Mr. 
and Mrs. Roy Vandenberg, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie H. Vandenberg, Mr. and Mrs. 
Clarence Vandenberg and Mrs. Donald Murphy of Kalamazoo; Mr. and Mrs. Allan A. 
McCurdy of Grand Rapids, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Palmer of Lansing.


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