Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Griswold, Ray I. 1938
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The Portland Observer, Thursday, April 21, 1938


Amid high-banked bouquets of flowers sent as tokens of their esteem and 
affection, friends and relatives bowed in silent prayer Tuesday afternoon as 
Rev. Warren E. Brown read last rites for Ray I. Griswold, publisher of the 
Observer, at his home on Grant street.

Following an illness of nine months, during which time his health had rapidly 
failed, Mr. Griswold succumbed at 10:30 o’clock Sunday evening.  He had been 
forced to retire from work on the newspaper in July of last year, and had been 
confined to his home most of the time since then. 

Pallbearers were Leo C. Lehman, Chester Blanchard, Dr. S. A. Horning, A. J. 
Barton, B. W. Jackson and Frank L. Jenkins.  Burial was in the Portland 
cemetery.

Born in Chesaning July 30, 1872, he had spent his early years there and in St. 
Charles.  Later the family moved to Ithaca, where he was associated with an 
older brother, Fred W., in publishing the Gratiot County Journal.  He continued 
in this work on the Owosso Argus, and later at Calumet, where he was branch 
manager of the Houghton County Journal.

On Oct. 6, 1905 he married Mollie Lincoln Brewer, of Jackson, and the couple 
lived in Ithaca for several years.  To this union were born three children, 
Eleanor, Eugene, and Barbara.  The family moved to Portland in 1921, and Mr. 
Griswold took over the publication of the Observer, then in its fifty-third 
year, from Arthur L. Francis, who moved to Lansing to establish the Lansing 
Capital News.

Surviving are the wife, Mollie; two daughters, Eleanor and Barbara; a son, 
Eugene, and two brothers, Fred. W. Griswold, of Bath Mich., and Charles 
Griswold, of Jackson, Mich.

Among friends from out-of-town who attended the funeral services were: Ralph 
McNitt, Frank Dellopaugh, Mrs. Muriel Monger, Elmer Keldsen, and Kent Nelson, 
of Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Bailey, of Grand Ledge; Mr. and Mrs. J. N. 
Hirleman, of Battle Creek; Riley Baum, of Jackson, and Hiram Johnson, recently 
retired publisher of the Advertiser at Saranac.


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