Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cutler, Harvey Donald 1936
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 27 Apr 1936

Funeral services for Harvey Donald Cutler, 44, were conducted at 2:30 Monday
afternoon from the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Hanigan, 115 Lafayette street. 
The service was conducted by Rev. Paul L.Stewart, pastor of the Church of
Christ, and burial was at Highland Park cemetery.  Flowers were in charge of
Mrs. Hazel Seven, of Grand Rapids, and Mrs. Philip Pittinger, of Grand Rapids. 
Berries were Russell Voelker, Henry T. Welch, Foss O. Eldred, Murrays Defendorf,
of Ionia, and Philip Pittinger and Carol Seven, of Grand Rapids.

The funeral party accompanying the body came to Ionia Sunday from New York where
Mr. Cutler’s death occurred Saturday.  The cause of death was heart disease.  He
had been in the hospital following an attack with which he was stricken four
weeks ago.  Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Nita Cutler, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Hanigan, and a half brother, James Cutler, of Chicago.

Mr. Cutler, known to his friends as Don, was born in Ionia, August 21, 1891, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. George Cutler.  He attended the Ionia schools and was
graduated from the Ionia high school with the class of 1909.  He went to the
University of Michigan from which he was graduated in 1914 with a degree in
electrical engineering and went to New York in the employ of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company.

At the outbreak of the world war Don enlisted in the air service and was an
instructor in flying at Kelly field, San Antonio, Texas, where he had the rank
of captain.  He was one of the few selected to take a course in aeronautical
engineering at the Boston Institute of Technology and later was sent to McCook
field at Dayton, Ohio, as assistant chief of the technical data department.

In 1923 he entered the insurance business in Detroit as manager of the sales
force and in the fall of 1934 accepted a position in the New York office of the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company as assistant to the general agent and
supervisor of production.

When he was 16 years of age, Mrs. George Cutler, his mother, was drowned when
her row boat over-turned in a storm on Chippewa lake, near Big Rapids.  The
death of his father occurred a few years ago in Chicago.  He was a member of the
Presbyterian church.

Attending the services from away were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pittinger, Mrs. Earl
Sauerman, Mr. and Mrs. A. Kennedy, Mrs. Fred Whitney, Mrs. Pauline Bleumrich and
Mr. and Mrs. Carol Seven, of Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Jay Forbes, and Mrs.
Harry Lunn, of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Verne Smith, of Flint; Mrs. George Cutler
and son, James, of Chicago; Arthur H. Cutler, Jr., Margaret Cutler and Dorothy
Nichol, of Ann Arbor; Erwin Nichol and Earl Hanigan in Detroit; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Roehm, of Clarkston.


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