Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bignell, Charles W. 1917
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Belding Banner, 21 Feb 1917

C.W. Bignell Veteran Printer Passed Away.

Resident Printer for Many Years Ends Life’s Work After Illness of Only Short Time.

Charles W. Bignell passed away at his residence on South Bridge street Monday
morning at 6:30 o’clock, aged seventy years.  The deceased had been sick only
about three weeks, having continued at his work in the news office until he
complained of not feeling well and thought he would lay off a day or two to
recuperate.  He continued to grow gradually worse until death relieved his
sufferings.

Mr. Bignell was born in Bloomfield, Oakland county, Mich., and when a young man
came to Ionia and helped his father at the printing trade there and also made up
the forms for the first paper printed in Portland.  Later he went to Grand
Rapids and for many years was connected with the Eagle, Democrat, Times and
other publications of those early days, as a reporter and compositor.

About twenty years ago he came to Smyrna and a few years later moved to Belding,
having entered the employment of Frank J. Luick as foreman in the News office.

“Charley” as he was familiarly known, was well liked and knew the printing
business form one end to the other.  He possessed a fund of knowledge and had a
keen memory of events which he could recall with ease.

During the last few hours of his life at intervals in his delirium, he would
seemingly be anxious about the setting of advertisements and the making up of
forms, talking about getting them ready for the run of the paper.

The funeral was held at the home of his brother, G.O. Bignell, at two o’clock
p.m., Wednesday, where many friends came to pay their last respects.  There were
many flowers on the casket, several floral offerings, one a wreath of roses from
the printers of the city.  The burial was made in the Smyrna cemetery.

He leaves besides his wife, Eva E. Bignall, two sons in Grand Rapids – George L.
Bignall and James R. Bignall.

[Transcriber's Note:  Both spellings of the surname are typed as printed in the
obituary.]


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