Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Grounds, Oral 1972
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The Belding Banner-News, Thursday, July 13, 1972


Memorial services for Oral Grounds, 81, of Palm Harbor, Florida, will be held 
at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Leonard-Osgood Funeral Home in Hastings.  Mr. 
Grounds died July 4 at the Hastings Hospital where he had been a patient for 11 
days.

He was born in Lawrence county, Illinois, March 9, 1891, the son of George and 
Melissa Curry Grounds.  He married Alta Lyons who preceded him in death in 
1929.  In 1931 he married Nira Klise in New York City.

He farmed in Iowa from 1933 to 1938 when he came to Belding where he owned and 
operated a Gambles Store.  He later opened a store in Ionia.  He retired in 
1949 and has lived in Ionia county and Tarpen Springs, Florida, since that time.

Mr. Grounds is survived by his wife; one daughter Mrs. Jerry (Dorotha) Frost of 
Hastings; one son Dr. F. Oral Grounds of Lansing; two sisters, Mrs. Zelma Milke 
of Tampa, Florida, and Mrs. Ora Dean of Detroit; one brother Howard Grounds of 
Flint; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.


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