Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Childs, John Robert July 20, 1979
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          JOHN ROBERT CHILDS
   LAKE ODESSA  -  John Robert Childs, 83 of 1015 MacArthur St. Lake Odessa, died
Friday morning at Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids, where he had been a patient for two 
days.
   Mr. Childs was born June 21, 1896 in Vermontville, the son of John and Violetta
(Andrews) Childs.
   He attended Vermontville public schools and Eastern Michigan University.  He
graduated from the University of Michigan with his master's degree in 1930.
   Mr. Childs married Myrtle W. Williams on April 2, 1924, in Lake Odessa.
   He was school superntendent at Vermontville, St. Charles, Three Oaks, Frazier and
Breckenridge public schools.  He also taught at Lake Superior State College in 1947.  
In 1964 he retired and moved from Breckenridge to Lake Odessa.
   Mr. Childs was involved in audio visual sales in pubic schools and in real estate
for McCartney Agency before retiring in 1974.
   He was a member of the Central United Methodist Church in Lake Odessa, and was a
past-member of the Lions, Rotary and Masons Club.
   Mr. Childs is survived by his wife, Myrtle, one son, John W. Childs of
Southfield. one daughter, Mrs. Charles (Louise) Hardin of of Edwardsbburg, six grandchildren 
and six great-grandchildren.
   Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Sunday from the Pickens-Koop Funeral Parlor
in Lake Odessa.  The Rev. William Hetel and the Rev. Clark Phillips officiated.
 

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