Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Foght, Frank 1945
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The Lake Odessa Wave, Thursday, December 6, 1945

Frank Foght, a well-known Odessa township farmer living north west of Lake 
Odessa until last summer when he bought a house in Lake Odessa and moved here, 
died Saturday after an illness of three weeks.  Mr. Foght was born November 
17, 1860, in Odessa township where he took an interest in civic and political 
affairs, being a staunch Republication, all his life.

On May 24, 1884, he was married to Miss Etta Garfield and to this union seven 
children were born.  The funeral was held at the Wortley & Baine chapel, 
Monday afternoon with the Rev. Dr. Shulls, pastor of the Lake Odessa First 
United Brethren church, officiating.  

Surviving are the widow, four daughters, Mrs. Lera Blakely, Mrs. Verna Cooley, 
Mrs. Maysel Rush, and Miss Dorothy at home, two sisters, Mrs. Ida Reese and 
Mrs. Ada Champlin, 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

The pall bearers were grandsons Hale and Clare Blakely, Edward Cooley, 
Kenneth, Dallas and Roger Rush.

Those from out of two who were in attendance at the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles Snyder of Lansing, Mr. and Mrs. David Garfield and Mr. and Mrs. P. D. 
Peterson of Lowell, Mrs. Ardis Rush and son Bonnie of Detroit, Charles Curtis 
of Houghton Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bos and Miss Madonna Kenyon of Kalamazoo, 
Mr. and Mrs. Hale Blakely of Ludington, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rumbaugh of Ionia, 
and Mr. and Mrs. William Garfield, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. 
James Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Taylor, Mrs. Hattie Pool, Mrs. Nellie Otis, 
Mrs. Joan Adgate and Ernest Sherwood, all of Saranac.


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