Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Freeman, Perry C. 1931 June 11, 1931 ************************************************ 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: Pat Blood pat.blood@gmail.com April 23, 2011, 11:59 am Ionia Sentinel Standard – Friday, 12 June 1931 Perry C. Freeman, 84, well-known farmer of Ionia county who retired a few years ago and went to Lowell to live, died at his home Thursday evening, having been seriously ill for several weeks, the first time he had been confined to bed in nearly three score years. Mr. Freeman was born in South Boston. After his marriage 59 years ago to Miss Ruth Hall, of Ionia, a sister of former Representative Luther E. Hall, the couple began housekeeping in Ionia, where they lived for three years. Moving from Ionia to South Boston, he resided on the same farm continuously for more than 40 years prior to his retirement. He served the community in which he lived as a school officer of the South Bell district, an officer in the grange, and the Methodist Episcopal Church in South Boston and later in Lowell. Besides the widow, eight of their 11 children survive, including Mrs. W. E. Minty, Mrs. Belle Collar, Miss Nemma Freeman, Emery Freeman of Grand Rapids; Verne Freeman, of Lansing; Mrs. Roy Kyser, John Freeman, and Frank Freeman, of South Boston. Also 25 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held in the Lowell Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock by Rev. A. T. Cortland. Interment will be in South Boston cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/f/freeman11483nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb