Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Durkee, Gordon Lafayette 1943 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net August 28, 2012, 5:47 pm The Lake Odessa Wave, Thursday, November 18, 1943 Gordon Durkee, 32, of Barryton, died suddenly Friday afternoon following a long period of ill health, while visiting at the home of his wife’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Geiger here. He was born in Barry county October 5, 1911, and was graduated from Lake Odessa high school in 1930. On October 4, 1931, he was married to Miss Beulah Geiger of Lake Odessa, who survives. Also surviving are a son, Duane, at home; his father, Clarence Durkee of Barryton; two sisters, Mrs. William Commee of Stanton and Mrs. Berwin Stadel in the Tamarac neighborhood, a brother Hayden in Lake Odessa. Funeral services were held Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geiger, an uncle the Rev. R. E. Durkee officiating, with burial in Lakeside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/d/durkee19160nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb