Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Custer, Steven 1940
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, 19 Apr 1940

Steven Custer, 77, life long resident of Elmdale, was found dead of a heart 
attack in his bed at 5:30 o’clock Friday morning by his son-in-law, Ira 
Sargent, with whom he lived.  Coroner Harry Myers, who was called, said Custer 
had been suffering a heart ailment and had died in his sleep.

Custer was born April 30, 1863, in Cambric county, Pennsylvania.  He came to 
Elmdale with his parents when he was three years old.  He is a distant relative 
of General George A. Custer, and a retired farmer.  His wife, Nancy Custer, 
died in December of 1939.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Ira Sargeant of Elmdale, Mrs. Francis 
Schwab of Eagle and Miss Gladah Custer of Elmdale.

Funeral services will be held from the home Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock and 
from the Mennonite church south of Elmdale at 2:30 o’clock.  Interment will be 
in the Mennonite cemetery.  The body was taken to the Beattie funeral home at 
Clarksville.


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