Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....FLEETHAM, Edgar Robert December 2005
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Newsletter from Sebewa, Volume 41  December 2005   Number 3; submitted with permission of Editor, Grayden D. Slowins
Edgar Robert Fleetham, 90, husband of Rosa (Beland) Fleetham, father of 
Jeannine Rogers, Anne Merrill, Floyd and Terry Fleetham, brother of Fern 
Bigelow, Durwood Fleetham and the late Lucinda and George Fleetham, son of 
Lilly Lauretta (Shaw) Fleetham Gragg & Floyd H. Fleetham, son of Nancy & Edgar 
G. Fleetham, son of George Fleetham, son of Richard & Clarissa Fleetham, who 
settled on what was later the Bidwell farm on Keefer Highway in Sebewa Township 
before 1850.  Lillie Lauretta Shaw's parents were Robert & Lucinda Shaw, who 
came from Ontario, Canada, in the 1890s to the Sessions School neighborhood in 
Berlin Township and then to Musgrove & Bliss Road corners in Odessa Township.  
Edgar was a lifelong farmer on Dow Road, the continuation of Keefer Highway in 
Sunfield Township, where his grandparents and great-grandparents had farmed, 
after his father died when Edgar was fourteen.  Edgar was a local elected 
official for 57 years, including School Board member, Township Treasurer, 38 
years as Township Supervisor & County Commissioner, 25 years on the Eaton 
County Public Health Board, 22 years on the Mental Health Board, 50 years in 
Sunfield Lions Club, and 50 years as Lay Leader & member of the Sunfield United 
Methodist Church board.  He succeeded Theo Lenon as an agriculture and history 
columnist in the Sunfield Sentinel.  He is buried in Sunfield Cemetery.

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