Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bradfield, John D. 1944
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Portland Review & Observer, 18 May 1944

Dr. J.D. Bradfield Dies; Helped ‘Usher In’ Over 2300.

Dr. John D. Bradfield, one of Portland’s best known residents, medical consulter
and personal friend of many a family in the community, passed away at
Butterworth hospital, Grand Rapids, Monday morning.  Although he had been in
poor health for some weeks, he had been a patient at the hospital only since the
previous Friday.

The remains were returned to Portland and funeral services will be held at
Bandfield Funeral home Thursday at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. George Stanford, of the
Methodist church, officiating.  Burial will be in Grand Rapids, and Dale E.
Hyland post, American Legion, of which Dr. Bradfield was a member, will furnish
a military escort.  Bearers will be from the Dale E. Hyland American Legion
post, and will be J.H. Owen, Ben Sykes, Ray Pryer, Alden Young, Charles Sprout,
and Frank Day.

Dr. Bradfield was born in Burwell, Ont., 73 years ago.  He came to Michigan as a
boy, his parents locating in Grand Rapids.  In that city he attended Union and
Central High schools, and later Detroit School of Medicine, Rush College,
University of Chicago.

Back in 1903 he started his professional career, accepting a position as junior
assistant surgeon at Michigan Soldiers Home, in Grand Rapids.  A year later he
settled at Tremayne’s corners, and it was from there that he came to Portland in
1909, to start a practice which grew as the years passed by.

Dr. Bradfield went to homes of his patients in the early days by means of horse
and buggy.  As automobiles came into even sparse use, he took up the “new
fangled” means, and he drove nearly every early make of car that could furnish
power enough to operate on the country roads of that time.   Dr. Bradfield never
refused to answer when called and during the influenza epidemic of 1918 and
1919, sometimes went as long as three days and nights without getting to bed.

More than 2,300 babies were brought into the world through the assistance of Dr.
Bradfield, who had come to be known as “the baby doctor.”  He was a member of
the medical corps in the first World war and had the rank of major.  He had
received his overseas orders at the time the armistice was signed, Nov. 11, 1918.

Fifty-four years ago Dr. Bradfield married Miss Jean Paterson and Mrs.
Bradfield’s death occurred 12 years ago.  Surviving is one daughter, Mrs. Guy
Peake, of Danby and three grandchildren, John Starr, Chicago; Cpl. Charles
Starr, Arizona, and Mrs. Mary Starr Sewell, of East Lansing.  There is also one
brother, William W. Bradfield, of Grand Rapids, and one sister, Mrs. C.E.
McCauley, also of that city.


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