Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....DeGraff, John A. April 17, 1954 ************************************************ 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: Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com January 26, 2021, 7:34 pm Sentinel-Std. - Monday, April 19, 1954 John A. DeGraff, 86, of Lyons, died Saturday, April 17, at 8:40 p.m. at the Eckert Nursing Home, where he has been a patient for the past two weeks. He was born August 20, 1867 in the Netherlands and came to the United States in 1912 and has made his home in Lyons for the past 20 years where he had been a painter and decorator. His wife, Marie, died in the Netherlands in 1904. A son and daughter in the Netherlands survive him. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock at the SS. Peter and Paul church with the Rev. Fr. John S. Fons officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet cemetery. Mr. DeGraff reposes at the Shaw-Rivett funeral home in Muir where Rosary will be recited Monday evening at 7:30. Additional Comments: Age; 86 Funeral: Tuesday, 20 April 1954 Mt. Olivet cemetery File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/d/degraff39623nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb