Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Geigle, Christian G. 1955
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Belding Banner-News, 5 May 1955

Long Illness Fatal Sunday To Chris Geigle

Christian G. Geigle, age 76 years, passed away at his home in Orleans Sunday
morning, May 1st, at 9:45.  He had been ill for the past five years.  The last
17 years of his life were spent in this community.  The deceased was born
September 7, 1878 in Germany.  He served in the regular army from 1914-17.

For a number of years he worked as receiving and shipping clerk at the Michigan
Wheel Company, Winegars Furniture Company and as a guard at the United States
Post Office in Grand Rapids.  During his residence in that city he attended the
St. Johns Lutheran church.

On August 31, 1938 he was married to Jennie Tennis in Angola, Indiana, who
survives.  Also surviving are one son, Fred, of Muskegon, a daughter, Mrs.
William Mercery of Grand Rapids, four grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren, and four sisters, Mrs. Edgar Freeman, Mrs. Samuel Woolpert, Mrs.
R. J. Soules and Mrs. Howard Wood, all of Grand Rapids.

The body was at Ellis funeral home until Tuesday morning, when it was taken to
the Rauschenberger-Walcott Funeral Home in Grand Rapids.  A military service,
under the direction of the American Legion, George Gobell post of that city was
conducted at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon.  Rev. Paul Gutknecht, pastor of the local
Holy Cross Lutheran church officiated at the service.  Burial was in Greenwood
Cemetery in Grand Rapids.


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