Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Coon, Bert H. 1948 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net September 22, 2018, 12:27 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 22 Mar 1948 Bert H. Coon, 44, Pere Marquette employee, died at 4:20 Palm Sunday afternoon at his home in Big Rapids where he had lived for the past two years. He had been ill for several weeks. He was born January 3, 1904, the son of David and Mary Coon in Ionia county. He resided in Ionia and vicinity all his life until two years ago when he moved to Big Rapids. He married Lillian Renz of Ionia in 1928. She preceded him in death in 1937 at the time of the death of an infant son. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Engineers. Surviving him are one daughter, Shirley May, of Rosebush; four brothers, Frank of Big Rapids and Neil, Gordon and Elvert of Big Rapids Route 1; and four sisters, Mrs. Ray Rogers of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Gordon Graboskey of Ferris, Mrs. Theodore Hampel of Lake Odessa and Mrs. Lawrence Tomkin of Big Rapids. Funeral services will be held from the Martison-Rogers funeral home in Big Rapids Thursday morning at 10:30 o’clock. Interment will be in Highland Park cemetery, Ionia, at 3 p.m. that day with the Rev. Dwight M. Kitch officiating. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/coon8322gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb