Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Behler, Gerald K. 1980 ************************************************ 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 October 8, 2017, 1:52 pm Lake Odessa Wave, 24 Apr 1980 Mr. Gerald (Jerry) K. Behler, 58, of Lake Odessa, died on April 17 in the V.A. Hospital in Bay Pines, Fla. He was born on Aug. 6, 1921, in Detroit, the son of Allen and Ruth Keil Behler. He attended Lake Odessa High School and served in the U.S. Army for eight years. He married Virginia Frizzell in 1942 in Conway, Ark. He farmed in the Lake Odessa area for several years and moved into the village in 1959. He was a truck driver for the Hastings Aluminum Co. until his retirement in 1978. He was a member of the American Legion, VFW Post 4461 and the Lake Odessa Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife; his mother, Ruth Behler of Grand Rapids; one son, Michael of Lake Odessa; one daughter, Mrs. Donald (Quenda) Story of Lansing; one sister, Mrs. Willis (Arlene) Hatch of Alto; and one grandson. Services were held on April 21 at the Pickens-Koops Funeral chapel in Lake Odessa. Burial was in Lakeside Cemetery. A memorial fund for the Heart Fund has been established, and envelopes are available at the funeral chapel. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/behler6751gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb