Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dirr, Andrew T. March 5, 1941
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, March 6, 1941
Andrew T. Dirr, 68, retired Lake Odessa farmer and business man, died at his 
home in the village Wednesday night after several weeks of illness.  He was 
born at Pleasant Bend, Ohio November 30, 1893.  He married Carolyn Reahm.  
Eight years later the family moved to Michigan and settled in Odessa 
township.  Mrs. Dirr died in 1922 and soon after her death he sold the farm 
and moved into the village.  For four years Dirr operated a grocery and meat 
market in the village.  He had been retired since 1926.  He later married Mrs. 
Ella Stockford.  He was a member of the Lake Odessa First Congregational 
church.

Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Wilma Deatsman of Lake Odessa and 
Mrs. Monica Rock of Portland; two step-children, Mrs. Dione Manley and Boyd 
Rockford of Lake Odessa; eight grandchildren and two step-grandchildren; two 
sisters, Mrs. Nellie King and Mrs. Elizabeth Beck of Defiance, Ohio, and two 
brothers, Peter Dirr of Napoleon, Ohio and Charles Dirr of Pleasant Bend, Ohio.

Funeral services will be held form the First Congregational church Saturday, 
March 8 at 2 p.m.  Rev. E. E. Humphrey of Saranac will officiate, and he will 
be assisted by Rev. Frank Maxon of the Calvary United Brethren church at Lake 
Odessa.  Interment will be held at Lakeside cemetery.


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