Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Burns, Armor 1959
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 16 Nov 1959

Armor Burns, 76, lifelong resident of Ionia county, died Monday morning at the
Ionia County Memorial hospital.  He had resided in Ionia since 1915 and for many
years at 431 State street.  He had been in ill health for the past several
years.  He was born October 25, 1883 at Lyons the son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Burns.  He moved to Palo when an infant and attended school there.  Coming to
Ionia in 1915 he was married a year later to Shelta Hoover.  He followed his
trade as a tinsmith during his adult lifehood and was employed by Pere Marquette
railroad, Hayes Body Co., Ionia Hardware Co. and the G.L. Pierce Construction
Co.  He also operated his own tinsmith business and in later years a trucking
service in Ionia.

Surviving are four daughters, Helen Burns of Ionia, Mrs. Rebecca Cook of Grand
Rapids, Mrs. Ruth Chancey of Chicago, and Mrs. Janette Brightsman of Stanton;
five sons, Gerald of Carson City, Robert of Novi, Gordon and Donald of Ionia,
and Richard of Chicago; three sisters, Mrs. Riba Wilson of Illinois, Mrs. Nellie
Burbank of Hershey, and Mrs. Elizabeth O’Neil of San Diego, Calif., and 18
grandchildren.

Funeral service will be Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from Phelps funeral
chapel with the Rev. Wilfred Sawyer of the First Presbyterian church, officiating.

[Transcriber’s note:  There is a notation on the obituary card that he was
buried in Highland Park Cemetery.]


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