Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Durkee, Ronald E. (Mr.) January 7, 1956
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Lake Odessa Wave - January 12, 1956
         RONALD E. DURKEE DIED SATURDAY
   Ronald E. Durkee 46, farmer residing on Dudrkee Road, route 1 died Saturday from
self inflected gunshot 
wounds from a .22 calibur rifle according Sheriff Peter Van Vleck and Coroner
Wallace Jackson.  His wife 
Helen found him when she returned home from town.
   Mr. Durkee had spent most of his life on the farm in Odessa Township where he was
born  His parents were 
Don and Alice Durkee an at one time resided on Jordan Lake Avenue.  He attended the
Lake Odessa School.  
Very active in civic affairs he was a member of the IOOF Lodge, Lakeside Grange and
Farm Bureau.  He also 
served as a member of the rural Limerick School Board for several years and later
served eight years on the 
Lake Odessa Community School Board of Education and as president for two years.  He
did not seek relection 
last July.
   Surviving besides his wife are two daughters Mrs. Wayne (Lois) Jackson Grand
Rapids and Carolyn and one 
son Robert at home; three brothers Harold of Hastings, Charles of Grand Rapids and
Daniel of Lake Odessa 
and two grandchildren.
   Funeral services were held Monday at 2 at the Pickens Funeral Chapel with burial
in Lakeside Cemetery.

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