Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dunsmore, George Richard 1939
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, September 6, 1939


Funeral services were held at 2:00 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Methodist 
church in Ionia for Richard George Dunsmore, 30, well-known local dairy 
manager, who was killed in an automobile accident near Berlin Center Monday 
evening. Rev. F. G. Dunbar conducted the rites and burial was in Easton 
cemetery.

Bearers at the services were Sam Thaler of Greenville, Major M. A. Sines of the 
Michigan Flyers, Inc., George Vance and Ed Timmerman of Ionia.  The later 
operates a route for the Dunsmore dairy.

The accident occurred about 7 p.m. Monday at the intersection of the Berlin 
Center and Lake Odessa roads, eight miles southwest of Ionia.  According to 
Deputies Leo Geller and Karl Stearns who investigated the crash, the left rear 
fender of Dunsmore’s car collided with the front fender of an auto driven by 
Claud Harker of Saranac as the two entered the intersection.  Dunsmore was 
driving north from Lake Odessa and Harker was proceeding east.

Dunsmore’s vehicle rolled over end for end four times, leaving holes driven 
into the gravel road by the impacts.  The victim’s body was found eight feet 
behind his car, which was resting right side up and 170 feet from the scene of 
the crash.  It was a total wreck.

Coroner Harry Myers who was called pronounced the young man dead with a 
fractured skull among other injuries.  The body was removed to the Myers 
funeral home.  The coroner impaneled a jury consisting of George Aldrich, Elmer 
Larson, Ernest Sherwood, Wesley Hile, Frank Aldrich and Gaylen Haas, who may be 
called for an inquest within a few days.

Neither Harker nor his wife were injured in the collision.  Their car came to a 
stop in a ditch across the intersection and was but slightly damaged.

The deceased was a lifelong resident of this community, having been born here 
February 19, 1909.  He was a graduate from Ionia high school in 1929 where he 
became noted as a football player and was also graduated from a Michigan State 
college short course in dairy management.  He had been associated with his 
father for three years.

He was an ardent sportsman, being elected president of the Michigan Flyers, 
Inc., of the Ionia airport.  He had been a member of the Chamber of Commerce 
and the Methodist church. 
 
Surviving are the widow, the former Ariel Denton of Berlin; two daughters, 
Sharon and Ardelis; the father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dunsmore; a 
brother, Herbert Dunsmore of Marshall; and two sisters, Mrs. Alice Warden and 
Miss Ruth Dunsmore of Ionia.


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