Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bunnell, Fred Ashward 1937
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Ionia Sentinel, 20 Apr 1937

Fred A. Bunnell, 71, for more than 20 years traffic manager of the Ypsilanti
Furniture factory and treasurer of the Ionia city band, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. W.H. Burke, at Owosso, Tuesday morning, according to an
Associated Press dispatch.

Besides being associated with the former Governor Fred W. Green, he was for six
years traffic expert for the Michigan public securities commission during the
administrations of Green and Brucker.

Brights disease, which forced his retirement three months ago today caused his
death, it was reported.  He was formerly division freight agent for the Pere
Marquette railroad at Muskegon.  While associated with the reed furniture
factory here Mr. Bunnell began a movement which resulted in the levying of a
city band tax.  He was a baritone player in the city band for many years.

Survivors are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. William H. Burke; two sons, Harold of
Cheboygan, and Howard of Lansing; one step-daughter, Mrs. Helen Kent of Detroit;
one sister, Mrs. George Osborne of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Funeral services will be held form the Stebbins funeral home here Thursday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.  Interment will be at Highland Park.


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