Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Beattie, John January 1975
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Ionia Sentinel - Standard
John Beattie, 79, retired funeral director of Clarksville died unexpectedly 
Saturday evening at Osteopathic Hospital in Grand Rapids several hours after 
admittance.  Born in Ionia June 26, 1895, he was the son of John C. and Edith 
Allured Beattie.  He was a graduate of Ionia high school, University of Alabama, 
and the Worsham college of mortuary science at Chicago, Ill.  On June 4, 1919, 
he married Marian Taft of Ionia and later moved to Clarksville where he started 
business in a funeral home in 1935.  He owned and operated the business 30 years 
until his retirement in November of 1965 when he sold the business to Clare 
Pickens of Lake Odessa.  Mr. Beattie had been affiliated with the Bradley and 
Boynton funeral homes of Ionia prior to moving to Clarksville.

He had served with the US Army in World War I in France as a lieutenant.  He had 
also service as Clarksville’s village President; Campbell township treasurer for 
years and was a  (the rest of the obituary is unreadable).


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