Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Frace, Henry 1932
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net August 1, 2011, 11:43 am

Ionia Sentinel Standard, 4 Dec 1932

Henry Frace, for nearly 60 years in business in Saranac, died at his home Sunday
afternoon after a four weeks’ illness.  Arrangements for the funeral services
will not be completed until two sons living in California are heard from.

Mr. Frace was born in Easton, Pa., August 8, 1845, and came to Michigan at the
age of 21 and started clerking for J.J. Young, a merchant of Saranac, working
for him three years.  For a short time he lived in Detroit, where he became
identified with a wholesale mercantile house.  Returning to Saranac he began a
program that meant the erection of his home, and a two-story brick building now
occupied by C.A. Palmer, as well as the origin of business and fraternal
enterprises.  In 1870 he was united in marriage to Mary E. Shaw, who died
October 13, 1924.

With A.W. Goodell and A. Harvey as business associates he started the Saranac
grist mill, later selling his interests to E.G. Huhn.  At the time that the
Ypsilanti Reed factory began its scale of expansion several years ago he was
conducting a general store and sold the building to the Ionia company for a
factory, moving his shoe stock to the  Glenn Adgate building, continuing in this
business up to the time of his death.  He was taken ill four weeks ago, Mr.
Adgate conducting the store during the illness.

August 14, 1871, he with James Brown, A.R. Hicks, John H. Russell, and Dan
Donovan went to Lowell and joined the Odd Fellows.  That same year he made
application for an Odd Fellow lodge charter for the lodge No. 166, now in
existence at Saranac.  It has been claimed that he was the oldest Odd Fellow in
the state.

He served Boston township several years as supervisor, had been a member of the
village council and the school board and had been president of the village.

Surviving are four sons, Dr. Guy Frace, St. Johns; Claude, of this state; Dr.
Howard Frace, and Roy Frace, of California; five grandchildren; two
great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Alice Huhn, of Saranac.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/f/frace15453nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 2.5 Kb