Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Beck, Christian 1949 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net January 4, 2010, 1:42 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel, 9 Dec 1949 Christian Beck 72, of 666 Union street died Thursday noon at his home after being ill for several months. He was born Sept. 11, 1877, in Austro-Hungary and moved to this country in 1903 and settled in Ohio. He and his family moved to Michigan in 1912 and about a year later settled in Ionia. He has been a brick-layer by trade all his life. Surviving are the wife, Margaret; five sons, Chris Beck of Europe, Phillip of Holt, John Pavelka of Chicago, and Jacob and Henry Beck of Ionia; four daughters, Mrs. E.W. Steiner of Muskegon, Mrs. Elizabeth Benedict of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Gerald Musser of Benton Harbor and Mrs. Kenneth Rowley of Ionia; twelve grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. from the Bradley funeral home. Dr. Paul Stewart will officiate. Interment will be in the family lot in Balcom cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/beck2125nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb