Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ernsberger, Charles F. August 14, 1969
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Lake Odessa Wave
           SERVVICES HELD FOR CHAS. ERNSBERGER
   Charles F. Ernsberger, 96, passed away early Thursday morning a the Greenview
Nursing Home at Grand Rapids were he had been a patient two years.
   He was born April 5, 1873, near Mansfield, Ohio, the son of Christopher and Julia
(Mourer) Ernsberger and came with his parents to the Clarksville area when about nine 
years old.
   His early education was at a non-graded country school and later at the
Clarksville Academy.  He taught school for two years in the country in the Lake 
Odessa--Clarksville area and while teaching started the grading system, new in the area.
   Following his marriage to Anna Jackson, rural Lake Odessa, about 77 years ago,
they lived at Belding where he was employed four years in a shop where they made the 
old type wood Ice boxes. He later became a mall clerk on the old Pere Marquette Railway 
on runs from Grand Rapids to Chicago and Detroit and has a chance to study at the Detroit 
Library of Law between trains.  He was admitted to the bar April 15, 1910 and was a 
practicing attorney for more than 40 years before he retired in 1961.
   He and his wife moved to Lake Odessa in 1909 and Mrs. Ernsberger passed away
August 6, 1965.
   A member o the Central United Methodist church and Adult Fellowship of the church
he was also a member of the F&AM, the Scottish rites and Maccabee lodges.
   Surviving are four grand children Mrs. James (Judy) Sullivan of Grand Rapids,
Robert Burns of Grand Ledge, Mrs. Mary Lopez o Coral Gables, Fla. and Mrs Russell (Ruth) 
Carney of Grosse Point Woods;  13 great grand children;  two great great grand children 
and two sisters, Mrs. Laura Neujahr of San Francisco, Calif. and Mrs. Emma Duncan of 
Mountain View, Mo.
   A daughter, Lorraine Burns and a son Burton, passed away in the 1950's.
   Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Pickens Funeral Chapel Rev.
Marvin Zimmerman officiated with burial in Lakeside cemetery.

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