Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Curtis, Alvin Stephen 1947 ************************************************ 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 May 11, 2013, 11:36 am Ionia County News, 1 May 1947 Alvin S. Curtis died of a heart attack, Monday, April 28, in the Ionia County Memorial Hospital. He was 78 years old and had been failing in health for the past two years. Mr. Curtis was born in Ronald township, January 9, 1869. His early childhood was spent in Lorain, Ohio, and at the death of his mother when he was 12 years old, he returned to Ionia county to live with a relative. In 1897 he was married to Elizabeth Danner. Mrs. Curtis died in 1916 and two years later he was married to Vera Coy, of Ionia, and they came to the present home on Yeomans St. He was employed at the Reformatory as guard from 1927 until he retired in January, 1946. Besides his widow he leaves two sons and a daughter, Ronald, Alvin and Miss Coralie, all of Ionia; two brothers, Fred, of Langford, South Dakota, and Vernon, of Alliance, Ohio. Funeral service will be from Evangelical United Brethren church at two o’clock, Thursday afternoon. Rev. A. R. Kuehn will officiate and burial will be in Woodard Lake cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/curtis20079nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb