Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bates, Eston L. 1956 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mransom311@gmail.com June 20, 2014, 6:27 pm The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, May 31, 1956 Eston L. Bates, 62, retired Belding business man and a member of the Michigan department of revenue, died Tuesday night at his home following a heart attack. A former chairman of the Ionia county republican committee, Bates operated a drug store at Belding from 1926 to 1937. Before that he operated a drug store at Edmore. At the time of his death he was supervisor of industrial audits of the state revenue department. He is survived by his wife Leota; and a daughter, Mrs. Bruce Frighner of Royal Oak. Funeral services are to be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Fitzjohn funeral home at Belding. Interment will be at River Ridge cemetery. Graveside ceremonies will be by the Masonic lodge. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bates25651nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb