Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bignell, Claude E. 1957 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net May 19, 2012, 7:04 pm The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, November 14, 1957 Claude E. Bignell, 76, of Palo, died Wednesday at the Weedmark nursing home in Sheridan where he had been a patient for about a week. Prior, he was hospitalized in Sheridan and had made his home with his sister-in-law, Mrs. Ellis Bignell in Palo. Born June 17, 1886 in Smyrna, his parents were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bignell. Mr. Bignell had made his home at Palo and Hubbardston most of his life. Surviving are three nephews, Wilbur Bignell of Palo and Ellis H. Bignell and James Bignell of Ionia. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Methodist church, Palo. Interment will be in the Palo cemetery. The body will be at the Stebbins funeral home in Sheridan until time of the services. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bignell17851nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb