Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Downing, Thomas W. 2004 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net December 4, 2010, 1:31 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 13 Jul 2004 Thomas W. Downing, age 41, of Lake Odessa, passed away on Thursday, July 8, 2004. He was born on January 26, 1963, in Ionia, the son of Bruce and Myrtle (Thompson) Downing. Mr. Downing worked at the Ionia Meijer store for 18 years as a manger and was currently employed at Downing Well Drilling. Thomas loved spending time with and cherished his family. He also enjoyed hunting, camping and golfing. He was preceded in death by his parents and niece, Penny Black. Surviving are his wife of 14 years, Linnea; two children, Jason and Stephanie Downing; two sisters, Vicki (Joe) Bowerman of Portland, and Diane Black of Petersburg, Tenn.; brother, James (Nancy) Downing of Portland; mother and father-in-law, Tony (Judy) Bennett of Ionia; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services are 11 a.m. today, at the Schrauben-Lehman Funeral Home, 220 Rich St., Ionia. The family received friends at the funeral home Monday. For those desiring, memorial contributions may be made to his children’s trust fund, in memory of Mr. Thomas W. Downing. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/d/downing10085nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb