Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Francisco, Loyal Grant 1942 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mransom311@gmail.com August 29, 2014, 5:38 pm The Belding Banner-News, Thursday, September 17, 1942 The death of Loyal Grant Francisco, long time resident of this city, took place at his home, 518 James street, Monday during the noon hour, death coming after a long period of ill health. His condition for the past week or more had been such that he had been kept to his bed. Mr. Francisco was 73 years of age. Born at Dutton, this state, the son of Warren and Lorano Francisco, he came to this city in 1892 and the following year he was united in marriage to Miss Belle Perry, who with three sons, Leo and Leroy, of Lansing and Leon, of Lakeland, Florida are left to survive. Other survivors are six grandchildren and four great grand children, a sister, Mrs. Florence Moreland. Mr. Francisco was for many years an employee of the Belding Hall Company in their refrigerator factories and also worked for a long time in the local basket factory. He was a staunch member of the Free Methodist church and a man whose religion and Christianity was actually and actively put into practice each day. Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon, from the Free Methodist church, in charge of Arthur J. Fitzjohn, local funeral director, with Rev. A. D. McLachlan officiating, and burial was in the old Belding cemetery. Pallbearers at the funeral were: Clarence Packard, Jud King, Frank Rausch, Milan Rausch, Frank Brown and Roy Kaser. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/f/francisc28023nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb