Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Darling, Jay Pearson "Jake" 1953
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Belding Banner-News, 22 Oct 1953

J. P. Darling, Bait Shop Owner, Dies Of Heart Attack

J. Pearson Darling, 58, passed away at his home at 418 N. Bridge street Thursday
noon of coronary thrombosis.  He had been in Greenville during the forenoon and
returned at 10:30 according to the man who drove for him.  When Mrs. Darling
arrived home from her work at noon she found that he had apparently become ill
and had lain down and died in his sleep shortly before her arrival.

The son of Frank and May Pearson Darling, he was born in Stanton, August 10,
1895, and came to this city with his parents as a small child.  He was married
to Alma Allen of Ionia, April 24, 1918, and she is only direct survivor.

He was a member of Olson-Kiste Post VFW 4406, Belding Sportsman’s club, Chamber
of Commerce and served in Russia in World War I with the group commonly known as
the Polar Bear Company when the temperatures were 63 degrees below zero.  His
feet were so badly frosted at that time that they have always given him trouble.

The was a foreman in the metal finishing department at Gibsons in Greenville
until seven years ago, when ill health forced him to make a change and he has
since operated his own Bait and Tackle Shop at his home.

Funeral services were held Sunday at 2:30 at Fitzjohn funeral home with Rev.
H.B. Johnson officiating and the burial was in River Ridge cemetery.  Pall
bearers were Ward Blunt, Ernest Anderson, Ernest Allen, Fred Font, Harold
Clements and Leo McPherson.  Out of town relatives who attended the funeral were
Miss May Pearson of Sidney, Mrs. Lena Kunzi, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kunzi and
daughter Helen of Hudsonville, Mrs. Bert VanOss of Byron Center, Mrs. Margaret
Halstead of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Max Decker of West Branch, Mr. and Mrs.
Florian Tung, Mr. and Mrs. Roby Wright, Mrs. Ora Decker, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Font,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clements, Ural Kinney, Mrs. H.L. Morris of Ionia, Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Allen and Gus Flanagan of Orleans, Mrs. A.
Agostini of Ionia and Mrs. Edith Decker of Pamona, California.


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