Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gunderman, Elmer W. 1990 ************************************************ 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 February 10, 2019, 4:21 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 6 Mar 1990 Elmer W. Gunderman, 88, of Lake Odessa died Sunday at Battle Creek Community Hospital. Born Aug. 16, 1901, in Blue Island, Ill., he was the son of Henry and Martha Wetsel Gunderman. He attended schools in Blue Island and was married to Emily Simmons of Dec. 24, 1927, in Portland. She died in 1961. He lived and farmed in the Lake Odessa area most of his life. He was a member of the Church of God of Hastings. Surviving are two sons, James Gunderman of Harrison and Fred Gunderman of Vermontville; two daughters, Ruth Washburn of Battle Creek and Mary Jean Brown of Grand Rapids; 24 grandchildren and several great grandchildren; a half-brother, Howard Simmons, and a stepbrother, Floyd Simmons, both of Lansing. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. from Koops Funeral Chapel, Lake Odessa. Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery. The family will be at the funeral home Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. A memorial has been established for the Kidney Foundation, in care of the funeral chapel. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/g/gunderma9059gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb