Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bradley, Harold S. 1952 ************************************************ 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 June 20, 2014, 6:41 pm The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, December 11, 1952 Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Hebbleth-Waite funeral home in Evanston, Ill., for Harold S. Bradley, 59, of Evanston, Ill., a former Ionian. The body will arrive in Grand Rapids Saturday at 10 p.m. and will be brought to the Boynton funeral home to repose. Graveside services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Highland Park cemetery by the Rev. Fr. Roger Bunday, pastor of St. John’s Episcopal church. Bradley was found dead by a porter Wednesday morning on a train enroute from Chicago to Kansas City, Mo. At the time of his death he was vice president and western sales manager for Hiram Walker and Son, Inc., of Peoria, Ill. He was born October 1, 1893 in Ionia, the son of Charles and Mary Bradley. He attended Ionia high school. He was employed by the Ypsilanti Reed furniture company for some time, a year of that time in Singapore acting as the company’s buyer of rattan. He was in the real estate business in Detroit in the partnership of Barrett, Vosper and Bradley before moving to Grand Rapids in 1936. A year later he became divisional manager for Ohio and Illinois for Hiram Walker and Son, inc. In 1939 he was promoted to his present position and transferred to Chicago. He was a member of St. John’s Episcopal church and of the Elks. Surviving are the wife, the former Cornelia Wardle; a son, Charles, in military service at Monterey, Calif.; two brothers, Glenn of Washington, D.C., and Russell of Ann Arbor; and a sister, Ethel, of Ionia. Another brother, Matthew G. Bradley, an Ionia funeral director, died in 1951. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bradley25672nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb