Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Doyle, Thomas Corrigan 2010
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The Hastings Reminder, December, 2010

Thomas Corrigan Doyle, age 68 of Freeport, Michigan passed away with his 
family at his side on December 11, 2010 after a valiant 6-year battle with 
cancer.  Tom was born July 26, 1942 in Hastings to Terrance and Margaret 
(Barnum) Doyle. 

After being educated at nearby Jennings and Freeport Schools, he graduated a 
proud Lake Odessa Trojan in 1960. After graduation, Tom pursued and attained a 
degree in Packaging Engineering from Michigan State University. This degree 
pulled him westward when he was offered a job with Hughes Aircraft in Los 
Angeles, California. He remained there for a little more than ten years, 
enjoying the ocean and skiing in the mountains. More significantly, he met the 
love of his life, Janice Christensen; they were married on November 8, 1974 in 
Rancho Palos Verdes, California.  

In the late 1970s Tom returned to Michigan where he and Jan set up a farm on 
lands adjacent to those he had grown up on. Farming offered him the 
opportunity to work with his father and be there for his own growing family, 
which soon included two boys. Although Tom continued to farm for most of his 
life, he also began working for Barry County, eventually being elected Drain 
Commissioner, a position which he held until retiring in December of 2008.  
When not working, he was a volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America, Troop 
300, in Lake Odessa Michigan and a volunteer on mission trips with his Church, 
Lakewood United Methodist Church

Tom was preceded in death by both of his parents as well as his father-in-law 
Ellsworth “Doc” Christensen of Greenville, Michigan. He his survived by his 
wife, Janice K. Doyle, his siblings Sheila Johnson, Denny Doyle, and Connie 
Doyle and his sons Patrick and Kevin.

Funeral services were held at his church, Lakewood United Methodist in Lake 
Odessa, on Thursday December 16, 2010,  The family humbly requests that in 
lieu of flowers memorial contributions be made to the organizations he loved, 
Lakewood United Methodist Church or The Gerald R. Ford Council of the Boy 
Scouts of America to support Gerber Scout Camp. Arrangements are by the 
Girrbach Funeral Home in Hastings.



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