Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Edlin, Richard H. 1950
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Friday, December 1, 1950

Services for Richard Edlin, 37, of Jackson will be conducted by the Rev. Glen 
McCarty at the Boynton funeral home Saturday at 2 p.m.  Interment will be in 
Easton cemetery.

Edlin, who was employed on the night shift at the crankshaft division of 
Muskegon Motors in Jackson, was en route home shortly after midnight Wednesday 
when his car went out of control and hit a tree about two miles from his 
home.  Fatally injured, he was found by motorists about 6 a.m. in the wreckage 
of his car.  He was removed to a Jackson hospital where he died about eight 
hours later.

He was born June 19, 1913, in Easton the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Edlin.  He 
attended Welch school and Ionia high school.  On April 25, 1936, he married 
Betty Whitschell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Whitscell of Pearl street.  
They lived in Easton until about nine years ago when they moved to Jackson.

Surviving besides his wife are two sons, Thomas, 12, and Theodore, 9; his 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Edlin of Easton; and a sister, Mrs. William Verburg 
of Grand Rapids.

Subsequent Publication:  Monday, December 4, 1950

Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Glen McCarthy of Saranac at the 
Boynton funeral home Saturday at 2 p.m. for Richard Edlin who died Wednesday 
in a Jackson hospital of injuries incurred in an accident earlier that 
morning.  Burial was in Easton cemetery.  Bearers were Orville Jerrell, Alfred 
Lile, Clark Townley, Roy Keirns, Vird Borders and Jasper Graham.

Attending services from away were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Taylor, George Whitscell 
and Mrs. Willard Phillips of Belding, Mr. and Mrs. John Dean and Mr. and Mrs. 
Maurice Conner of Lansing, Mark Hoppough, Mr. and Mrs. Don Harrington and Mr. 
and Mrs. William Loding of Greenville; Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Blough of Chelsea, 
Mrs. E. A. Murphy of Lyons, Gilbert Murphy of Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. Fred 
Redemsky of Saginaw, Clifford Sible of Hubbardston, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Noffke of 
Caledonia, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Graham, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Graham and Mr. 
and Mrs. M. C. Townley of Springport, Mr. and Mrs. William Verburg, Mr. and 
Mrs. Fred Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Clemenz, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Hawley and 
Robert Hawley of Grand Rapids, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lile, Mr. and Mrs. Orville 
Jerrell, Ray Keirns, Vird Borders, Max Wymer and Clare Wymer of Jackson, Mr. 
and Mrs. Ned Wymer of River Junction, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wymer and Mr. and 
Mrs. Lyman Corser of Parma.



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