Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bergy, H. Edward 1930
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 18 Feb 1930

H.E. Bergy Succumbs To Grand Rapids

Pneumonia Following Operation Last Thursday Night Proved Fatal to Well-Known
Ionia Business Man.

Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home, 325 East Main street, funeral
services will be held for the late H.E. Bergy, whose death occurred early
Tuesday morning in Blodgett Hospital, Grand Rapids.  Mr. Bergy was taken to
Grand Rapids last Thursday, where an emergency operation for gall stones and
appendicitis was performed.  Post-operative pneumonia, which developed later,
caused his death on Tuesday, just two days after he had passed his fifty-third
birthday anniversary Sunday.

Mr. Bergy had been closely connected with Ionia’s business interests for more
than 20 years prior to June 10, 1927, when he sold out his retail business to
the Methopolitan stores.  He came to Ionia in August,1904, and entered business
with his father-in-law, George Beemer, in the bazaar which Mr. Beemer and Mr.
Bergy conducted until the death of the former three years later.  For 13 years
of that time the business was located in the store east of the Regent theater,
and was moved later to the store building just east of that location, where it
was conducted by Mr. Bergy and his son Hugh until disposed of two years ago.

Mr. Bergy was active in all endeavors aimed to aid the progress of Ionia.  He
was president of the Building and Loan association, having taken the place of
K.R. Smith, Sr., at his death; a director in the National bank of Ionia; a
thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, and an Elk.  He had also held
various offices in local business organizations, where his business ability and
keen analysis of conditions was an asset of value.

Mr. Bergy was a native of Michigan, born at East Tawas.  In his youth he was an
expert telegrapher, and was employed in the Chicago offices of the Illinois
Central and later in the Union station in Grand Rapids.  In 1902 he was married
at Charlotte to Miss Margaret Beemer, who with one son, Hugh, survives him.  His
mother, Mrs. Almeda Bergy, aged 86, of Grand Rapids, and three sisters, Mrs.
Ella Carey, of Caledonia, and Blanche and Della, of Grand Rapids, also survive
him.


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