Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Catt, Alfred A. 1935
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 15 Mar 1935

Funeral services for Alfred A. Catt, who died Tuesday morning following an 
illness of two months, were held from the home in Ronald township Thursday 
afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. F. J. Fitch, of the Baptist church, 
officiating.  It was said to be one of the largest funerals ever held in Ronald 
township.

The services were held under the auspices of the Spanish war veterans, and 
about 30 members of the Spanish war veterans, camp No. 56, and the womans 
auxiliary attended the services in a group and acted as escort.  Mr. Catt was 
the youngest member of the Spanish war veterans in Michigan.  He enlisted in 
Company I of the 34th Michigan volunteer infantry when he was 16 years of age.  
He spent two years in Cuba, and was then transferred to Company D. of the 30th 
regiment of the United States volunteer infantry, and served for two years with 
that company in the Philippine islands.

The American flag covered the casket, and the bearers were eight Spanish war 
veterans, Sidney A. Rochester, Earl Mason, Hiram Crandell, Hugh Robertson, Otto 
Zanders, Fred Sherry, Jacob Lucas and Andrew Palmer.  The many floral offerings 
which filled the room were in charge of Mrs. S.A. Rochester, Mrs. Frank 
Gierman, Erwin Redemsky and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Martin.  Fred Sherry had charge 
of the floral contributions of the Saginaw division of the Pere Marquette 
railroad employees, and Hugh T. Dobbins and Charles Corcoran were in charge of 
the flowers from the Ionia division of the Pere Marquette railroad.  Angus 
MacDonald, of Grand Ledge, represented the Detroit division of the Pere 
Marquette, and there was a representation of the Brotherhood of Locomotive 
Firemen present.  Interment was at the family lot at the Palo cemetery.

Besides the many friends and relatives from Ronald and vicinity attending the 
services from away were Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Catt and daughter Lucille, of 
Detroit; Miss Martha Catt, of Leslie; Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Weyland, Mr. and Mrs. 
John Weyland, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lewis and Mrs. Blanche Bush, of Kalamazoo; 
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Catt and family, and Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Snyder, of Ionia 
township; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph First, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn First, Mrs. Lafayette 
Linebaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Webster Linebaugh, and Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Goodwin, of 
Orange Township; Roy Higbee, Fred Klotz and Miss Rusha Miner, of Portland; Mr. 
and Mrs. Glenn Wing and Mrs. Caine, of Bellevue; Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lucas, 
Grand Rapids; A.B. Goodwin of Carson City; Clair Norton, of Smryna; Andrew 
Palmer, of Lansing, and Angus MacDonald, of Grand Ledge.


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