Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Byers, Ralph E. August 6, 1975
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Ionia Sentinel Standard-Wed. August 6, 1975

                              RALPH E.BYERS

LAKE ODESSA-Ralph E. Byers, 87, of Woodland, died Tuesday at the Battle Creek 
Sanitarium hospital where he had been a patient three weeks.

Born in Dowagiac, February 19, 1888, he was the son of Leslie and Alma Watson 
Byers. He was employed at the Grand Rapids Press for 40 years and later at the 
Anderson Herald at Anderson,Ind..

July 21, 1950, he was married to Phoebe Oaks of Woodland, they lived in Anderson 
three years and the remainder of his life in Woodland.

He was a member of the Woodland Church of the Brethren and was a veteran of 
World War 1. He was author of two books, The Munitions Maker of Galilee, and the 
Son John's Barn.

His only survivor is his wife, Phoebe.

Funeral services will be Thursday at 1:30 pm at the Pickens-Koops Funeral Chapel 
at Lake  Odessa. Rev.Arthur Heisler will officiate and interment will be at 
Woodland Memorial Park Cemetery.

Additional Comments:
Woodland Memorial Park Cem.
World War I Veteran

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