Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bivins, Fred P. 1965 ************************************************ 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 mransom311@gmail.com August 29, 2014, 5:01 pm The Belding Banner, Thursday, September 30, 1965 Fred P. Bivins, age 86, of 927 Charles Street, passed away September 28 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Rapids where he had been a patient for three weeks. Mr. Bivins was born in Hubbardston, November 13, 1878. In 1902 he married the former Margaret Staub, who died in 1954, and moved to Belding in 1904. The deceased is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Michael (Lucille) Pendrick of Magnolia, Arkansas, and Mrs. Albert (Margaret) Hayes of Grand Rapids; four sons, Phillip of Rockford, Fred Jr., of Grand Rapids, Carl of Greenville, and Joseph of Wyoming, Michigan; one sister, Lucy Wright of Grand Rapids; one brother, James Bivins of Clare; 22 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Church with Rev. Father Charles E. Steves officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery. Rosary will be recited Thursday (today) evening at 8:20 at the Huffman Funeral Home. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bivins27971nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb