Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Culehan, Joseph P. 1921
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, April 21, 1921

Joseph Culehan, 432 E. Washington, a prominent lodge man and a resident of 
Ionia for many years, died shortly after 1 o’clock today from injuries 
received when he was struck by an automobile in Grand Rapids yesterday.  Mrs. 
Culehan was at his bedside in a Grand Rapids hospital when the end came and 
prepared to return to Ionia this afternoon, when the body was to be brought 
here.

Mr. Culehan was in Grand Rapids to attend the twenty-eighth annual convention 
of Michigan Shriners.  He was struck by the car driven by Harry Bills, of 
Belmont, as he was crossing the near of the Grand Trunk station Wednesday 
morning.

During the day yesterday the injured man was unconscious at the hospital and 
police officials were unable to learn his identity.  A paper in his pocket on 
which the address was apparently James Culehan led authorities to believe he 
was an inmate of the soldiers’ home.  When his identity was established late 
yesterday Mrs. Culehan was notified and went immediately to Grand Rapids.

Examination by the physicians determined the man’s skull was fractured in two 
places.  A depression of the skull was found and the skull was fractured at 
the base of the brain.  An operation was contemplated this morning but Mr. 
Culehan’s condition would not permit it.  He did slowly lose his grip on life 
and died shortly after noon today.  Friends in Ionia were notified immediately.

Witnesses of the accident say that Mr. Culehan was injured by the Bills’ car 
when trying to dodge another car.  The two cars were going in opposite 
directions and Mr. Culehan avoided the one only to get in the path of the 
other.  The driver was unable to stop in time to avoid the accident.  

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