Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gibbs, Lewis W. 1948 ************************************************ 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 January 9, 2010, 2:07 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 29 Nov 1948 Ill following a stroke a week ago Lewis W. Gibbs, 72, lifelong resident of Orange township, died at his home in Orange township Saturday afternoon at 4:15 p.m. Mr. Gibbs was born in the home where he died and he had lived there all his life. He was a farmer. He was born May 26, 1876 and in 1899 was married in Ionia to Frances Cook of Maple Rapids. He has been a member of the Ionia Elks for many years but had dropped his membership recently. Survivors include a son Lloyd, Orange township supervisor, and two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Briggs of Eagle and Mrs. Violet VerCies of Kalamazoo, two grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services are to be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. from the Banfield funeral chapel at Portland with burial at the Portland cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/g/gibbs2244nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb