Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Ernest 1954 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net January 9, 2010, 2:38 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel, 25 Sep 1954 Ernest Brown, 80, formerly of Orleans, died Friday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Donald Barden at Ithaca. He was born October 5, 1873, the son of Benson and Lydia Allen Brown in Hinton township, Mecosta county. September 18, 1887 he was married to Edna Gilmore at Lakeview and they lived most of their lives in Mecosta except for a short time in Henderson prior to their moving to Orleans in 1943. Surviving besides his wife, Edna, are three daughters, Mrs. Theodore Holland of Orleans, Mrs. Donald Barden of Ithaca and Mrs. R. J. Harrant of Cheshire, Conn; two sons, Harley of Muskegon and Virgil of L’Anse; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The body reposes at the Donald Barden funeral home in Ithaca and funeral services will be conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Orleans church with the Rev. Lester Clough officiating. Pallbearers will be Theodore Holland, Harley Brown, Virgil Brown, R. J. Herrant, Richard White and Robert Rockefeller. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/brown2293nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb