Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Clute, Richard C. April 21, 1953
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Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard - Tuesday, April 21, 1953

Richard C. Clute, 83, former Hudson riverboat owner and captain, died Tuesday, 
April 21, at 8 a.m. at the Ionia Convalescent Home where he had been a patient 
since September 1951.

He was born June 27, 1869, on the Clute farmhome on M-66, one of five children 
of Lemuel and Ellen Clute. 

Clute went to New York City at an early age and operated three delicatessens 
there. He also owned and was captain of his own boat out of New York harbor, 
and on the Hudson river. He returned to Ionia in the late 1920's and lived on 
State road in the old Clute homestead until he was taken ill in September 1951.

He was a member of the First Methodist church of Ionia and a graduate of the 
Ionia high school in 1886.

Surviving are a brother, Monroe, of New York City and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. 
Richard C. Clute, Jr., of Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. His only son, Richard Jr., 
died in January, 1953.

Funeral services will be conducted at the Boynton funeral home Thursday at 2 
p.m. Interment will be in the family lot, Highland Park cemetery.


Additional Comments:
Funeral: Thursday 23 April 1953
Highland Park cemetery #11-74

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