Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hacker, Herman F 1953
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Ionia Sentinel Standard -  10 December 1953
Hacker, Herman F.
DOD:  Thursday, 10 December 1953

Herman F. Hacker, 72, a resident of Ionia for more than 60 years, died at the 
Ionia County Memorial Hospital at 6 o’clock Thursday morning after a short 
illness.  Mr. Hacker would have been 73 on December 31.  Funeral services will 
be held at St. John Lutheran church on North Jefferson Street Saturday, Dec. 
12 at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, from the Boynton funeral home on north Rich 
street.  Interment will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Lansing.

Surviving him are his wife, Helena; one daughter, Mrs. Esther Slowinski, of 
Lansing; one son Donald, of Det4roit; a brother, Emil Hacker of South Haven; 
four grandchildren, four nephews and four nieces.

Mr. Hacker was born in Germany December 31, 1880, and came to the United 
States with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hacker, when he was four years 
of age.  Within a few years the family moved to Ionia.  In 1904 he was married 
in Ionia to Miss Helena Steinke.  He was active in his church, St. John 
Lutheran on North Jefferson Street, all his life, and had served it as 
secretary and elder for many years.  From 1905 to 1909 he served as treasurer 
of Ionia Township.  From 1909 to 1911 he was in the grocery business with 
Victor B. Wheaton at north Jackson Street and Lincoln Avenue and from 1911 to 
1914 he was employed in the men’s clothing department of the Thomas A. Carten 
store.  In 1914 he bought the grocery at East Main and Jackson streets which 
he conducted until he went with the Ionia Pottery Company for which he was 
traveling salesman for 33 years.  His territory included the states of 
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, Wisconsin, Iowa and 
Pennsylvania.  He retired in 1947.




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