Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Currie, Byrell 1952
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, 18 September 1952


Headline:  Rites Monday for Byrell Currie, Master Workman

Byrell Currie, 64, died at his home on Brown street Friday afternoon after an 
illness of several months.  He was born in this city April 29, 1888, the son of 
William and Luella Currie and most of his life was spent here and for 37 years 
he had lived at the Brown street residence.

A natural born mechanic, his work had always been along these lines and for 
short periods he had worked in Flint and in Muskegon.  He had worked in the 
Belding Hall and Gibson plants here.  He founded the Belding Tool & Machine Co. 
in 1939 and sold out to his partner William Coleman, in 1944.  Then he opened 
his own shop, the Currie Machine Shop, in a building at his home and did 
special work for all the factories here and for many others.  A tool and die 
maker, he could make a pattern and design any part needed for a machine.

Mr. Currie was granted a life membership in Belding Lodge No. 355, F. & A. a 
short time before his death.  He was also a member of the Congregational church.

On December 21, 1918 he married Winifred Carlington in Grand Haven.

Surviving besides his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Howard Wood of this city and 
Mrs. L. T. McNaughton of Lansing, one brother, Lyle of Kansas City and six 
grandchildren.

Funeral services were held on Monday at 2 o’clock at Ellis funeral home with 
Rev. H. B. Johnson and Rev. Wilford Wood officiating.  Interment was in River 
Ridge cemetery.  Acting as pall bears were Reginald Wooley, Creston Wood, Fred 
Rowley, Richard Dalton, Jr., Jeull Herbert, and Louis Outman.



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