Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dalley, Benjamin F. (Mr.) May 5, 1918 ************************************************ 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: Maureen Cross mcross3454@gmail.com September 4, 2022, 10:09 am Lake Odessa Wave - Times - May 10, 1918 BENJAMIN DALLY PASSES AWAY ---------- AFTER A LONG ILLNESS - MEMBER OF LOCAL I. O. O. F. AND REBEKAHS. ---------- For a number of years Ben Dally, as he was familiarly called, was a daily visitor on the streets of Lake Odessa. He was a carpenter by trade and a quiet man, but one emphatic in his views. Three years ago they moved to their farm home where Mr. Dally died after months of weary illness. -------- OBITUARY Benjamin F. Dally was born in Hancock county, Ohio, September 6, 1850 and died May 5, 1918, aged 67 years, 7 months and 29 days He was married to Josephine M. Guettler of Kendallville, Indiana, January 4, 1876. To this union were given two children, Albert T. Dally of Lake Odessa and Mrs. Myrtle Kart of Augusta, Michigan. Mr. Dally with his wife moved to Michigan in 1877. They located on a farm. Afterwards moved to Lake Odessa where he worked at the carpenter trade for several years. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. and Rebekah lodges here for several years and well known in the village and vicinity. He leaves a wife, two children, two grandchildren and two sisters, one in Montana dan one in Nebraska to mourn his departure. --------- CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to our kind friends and neighbors for the kindness and sympathy extended us in our recent sorrow and bereavement, the death of our beloved husband and father; also the minister for his words of comfort, and the singers, and I. O. O. F., and Rebekahs also for the beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. B. F. Dally, Bert Dally, Mrs. and Mrs. Kart, and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Guettler. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/d/dalley43851nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb