Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gavett, Blaine 1936
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Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, 21 Dec 1936

Blaine Gavett, 64, at one time a resident of Ionia, died Sunday at his Grand
Rapids home, after an illness of eight months.  He was manager of Gavett and
company with offices in the Kelsey building, producers’ agents for Anchor Post
and Fence company, Bell Lumber company, Naph-Sol Refining company and Randall
Fuel company.

Funeral services will be attended at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon with Dr. Edward
A. Thompson of Park Congregational church officiating and burial at Woodlawn
cemetery with the Masonic ritual.

From 1904 to 1910 Mr. Gavett was trainmaster for the Pere Marquette railroad and
part of that time was a resident of Ionia, residing also in Saginaw and Traverse
City during those years.  He was born in Lansing the son of Col. and Mrs.
William A. Gavett.  He received his schooling in Grand Rapids and in 1889 took a
job as stenographer in the office of General Agent Agnew of the Detroit, Grand
Rapids and Western railroad.  He was sent to Detroit in 1891 as chief clerk in
both the passenger and freight departments, and in 1893 became district
passenger agent eventually having charge of all of Ohio and Canada and part of
Michigan.


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