Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dunn, Thomas B. 1925
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, May 1, 1925
Thomas B. Dunn, 67, one of the oldest employees of the Pere Marquette railroad 
system, died at 10:15 p.m. Thursday at his home, 404 North Rich street, from 
the effects of a stroke, suffered shortly after the noon hour.  For the past 
three years he had been a watchman at the Hudson street railway crossing.

Mr. Dunn was born in Indiana, and came to live in Ionia when quite young.  It 
was more than 40 years ago that Mr. Dunn received his first running order as 
an engineer out of the city of Ionia.  The order was to run as far as the 
stone quarry, which is about two miles east of the city.  From that time until 
about three years ago Mr. Dunn had held the throttle for all kinds of 
locomotives of the Pere Marquette, and numerous predecessors.  Mr. Dunn 
entered the employ of the D. L. & L. M. in Ionia in 1878.  He fired for three 
or four years in the yards and on the road before becoming an engineer.

For a number of years Mr. Dun had a run between Grand Ledge and Plymouth, but 
later returned to Ionia to work.  The only accident he ever had was one dark 
night at Howell.  He made coupling, and failed to remove his hand quick 
enough, and lost the end of one finger.

Mr. Dunn was a member of the Maccabees and the I.O.O.F. lodge.  He is survived 
by his widow, two children, Lloyd Dunn, of Ionia, and a daughter, Mrs. D. N. 
Strange, of Grand Ledge; a sister, Mrs. John Moore, who lives north of Ionia; 
a brother, John B. Dunn, of Delphi, Ind., an three half-brothers, Frank Dunn, 
who is in the West; Silas Dunn, of Chicago, and Arthur Dunn, who lives near 
Grand Rapids.

The funeral will be held from the residence Sunday morning at 11:30 city 
time.  Rev. Charles J. Kruse will conduct the service.  Burial will take place 
in the family lot at the Grand Ledge cemetery.


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