Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Currie, Charles 1931
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Ionia County News, 11 Jun 1931

Funeral Service Held for Former Resident Monday

Late Monday afternoon, just as the setting sun was filling the west with golden 
glory, all that was mortal of Charles Currie, former Ionia boy, was laid to 
final rest in Mt. Olivet cemetery.  As Fr. Joseph A. Maier, priest of SS. Peter 
and Paul Catholic church intoned the burial service for the dead the day came 
to a peaceful close, a fitting ending of a life as peaceful through its 61 
years as its closing day had been.

We are sure that Charles Currie, whom everybody in the city knew and admired 
before his departure for the west many years ago, would have liked just such an 
ending to his work in this world had he been given a last desire.  Old friends 
gathered in the twilight to pay the final respects to his memory, a fitting 
tribute to a life that was everything to be desired as husband, father and 
friend.  He was a man of deep religious convictions, always thoughtful and 
sincere in his contact with others, the monument he builded during his entire 
career will endure with hills where he sleeps through the years.

Born in Maine

The deceased was the son of Daniel and Catherine Currie, being born at Old 
Towne, Maine, June 22, 1870.  When he was nine years of age his parents came to 
Ionia and it was here that he received his education in the public schools of 
this city.  On September 23, 1902 he was united in marriage to Miss Florence 
McQuillan, of Lyons.  Twenty-five years ago the young couple went west where 
they resided at the time of his death.  Regarding this part of his active 
business life, covering a quarter of a century, we quote the following from the 
Elma, Wash. Chronicle: 

“The hundreds of friends in this section of Charles Raymond Currie, office 
manager of the Mumby Lumber & Shingle Co. of Malone, were shocked to hear of 
his death Monday night in an Olympia hospital after an illness of only ten days 
with bronchial pneumonia.  During his seven years at Malone he and Mrs. Currie 
formed a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the east end of the 
county, and his untimely passing caused a pall of gloom in the community.

“Requiem mass will be said at St. Joseph’s Catholic church tomorrow (Friday) 
morning at 8:30, when members of the Elma Kiwanis Club, of which he was a 
faithful member, will attend in a body.

Was Manager

“Previous to going to Malone, Mr. Currie was office manager in the Bordeaux 
offices of the company for seven years.  He had been postmaster at Malone for 
several years.  Mr. Currie was a native of Maine, and would have been 61 years 
of age on June 22.  He came to Seattle from Michigan 25 years ago.

“He is survived by his wife Mrs. Florence Currie of Malone and a son, Kenneth, 
12, student at Marymount military academy.  There are no other immediate 
relatives.

“Pall bearers have been chosen by Mrs. Currie from among those most intimately 
associated with him during late years and has requested Mrs. R.F. Wold to sing 
at the simple services which are arranged.

“Active in affairs of the parish Mr. Currie was a member of the building 
committee of St. Joseph’s church, by whose efforts the fine new edifice 
recently was completed.

“The body will be taken by the widow and son to the family home in Ionia, Mich. 
for interment in the family plot.


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