Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bignell, Howard E. March 23, 1918 ************************************************ 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: Suanne Tasker stasker@cmsinter.net May 10, 2013, 6:45 pm Ionia Standard, Friday, March 29 1918 Howard E. Bignell, 26 years old, died of pneumonia at Pontiac on Saturday, and the body was brought here Monday and taken to the home of his mother near Palo. The first notice of the death came on Saturday from his brother Ellis at Pontiac. Besides the mother and brother he leaves a wife and daughter and two half-brothers. Additional Comments: Additional: Rev. Salyer of Palo conducted the funeral service for Howard Bignell who died Saturday at the City Hospital in Pontiac, at the Palo Baptist Church at 2:0 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The bearers were Ralph Baker, Frank VanVleck, Robert Howe, Jay Heath, Luther Martin and Elden Kendall. Burial was in Palo cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bignell20039nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb