Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Benedict, Elmer R. 1954 ************************************************ 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 16, 2010, 12:30 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 14 Jul 1954 Elmer Benedict, 72, Berlin township, died Tuesday evening, July 13, at the Ionia County Memorial Hospital. He had been ill for the last two weeks. He was born July 3, 1882, in Berlin township and was a life-long resident of Ionia county and had lived on his present farm on Bennett Road for the last 30 years. He was a member of the Berlin Center Methodist church and the Berlin Center Grange. Surviving are his wife, Lena; two sons, Charles of Berlin and Paul of Lake Odessa; five grandchildren; one brother, Floyd, of Orange township and one sister Mrs. Anna Williams of Orange. The body reposes at Morris funeral home in Saranac and funeral services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the Le Valley Methodist church with the Rev. Earl Carpenter officiating. Burial will be at Saranac cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/benedict2546nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb