Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Barry, Robert F. 1915
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The Belding Banner-News, Wednesday, December 1, 1915


The funeral services of Robert Barry, held at the Insley home in Smyrna Friday 
afternoon, were largely attended.  Assisted by Rev. A. J. Blair, Miss Flossie 
Spicer, Mrs. Bernie Strunk and Mrs. M. L. Berry, the services were conducted 
by the local Masonic lodge.  A goodly number of brothers attended to pay their 
last tribute to their friend of many years.

Saturday morning the body was transferred to Lake Odessa for burial.  
Following is the obituary as ready by Rev. Blair at the services Friday 
afternoon:  

Robert F. Barry, son of John and Olive Barry, was born in Sebewa, January 7, 
1857, and was 58 years of age.  He was married to Al. Downing at the age of 
twenty-one years.  To this union were born three children, two of whom died in 
infancy.  The eldest one, Olive Insley, who lives in Smyrna, is left to cheer 
and comfort the lonely mother.

Robert Barry came to Smyrna in 1893 and had charge of the Spencer Electric 
Light and Power Co.’s plant ever since its organization.  He was a member of 
Belding lodge N. 355 F.& A.M., record keeper of Smyrna tent, director on the 
school board, and  a member of Sebewa I.O.O.F. at the time of his death.

He leaves, besides the wife and daughter, three brothers, James of West 
Sebewa, Garrett of Logansport, Indiana, and his twin brother, Richard of 
Saranac; also, two sisters, Nettie Sherwood of Stanton and Hattie Lanning of 
Marion, Indiana, an aged mother, Mrs. Olive Winslow and two grandchildren, 
Clifford and Howard Insley and; also, an adopted son Marvin Nash of Lowell.  

He was ready to help anyone in time of trouble.  Certainly one good man is 
gone.


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