Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hanson, Walter Peter 1953
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, June 11, 1953

Because the casket will not be opened at the church, friends of Walter P. 
Hanson may pay their last respects at Myers funeral home.  Services will be 
Saturday at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian church.  The Rev. George 
Rentschler will officiate.  Burial will be in Easton cemetery.

Subsequent Publication:  Tuesday, June 16, 1953

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Presbyterian church for 
Walter P. Hanson, Ionia automobile dealer who died suddenly at his home on 
State road last week.  The service was in charge of the Rev. George L. 
Rentschler, pastor of the Presbyterian church.  Hanson was an elder member of 
the session.

Burial was at the Easton township cemetery northwest of Ionia.

Active bearers were Fred B. Post, Anthony Balice, Raymond Barnes, J.R. Magney, 
Burr Smith and Nels A. Strand.  Member of the Ionia Automobile Dealer’s 
Association were honorary bearers.  Flowers were in charge of employees of the 
Hanson Motor Sales and Dick Hanson Motor Sales.

The staff of the Ionia County Memorial hospital attended the service in a 
group.

Those from away who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Brainard of St. Cloud, 
Miss.; Mr. and Mrs. J. Francis Anderson of Lovington, N.M.; Miss Clara 
Anderson and Miss Lillian Anderson of Minneapolis, Minn.; Earl Tolbert of 
Galesburg, Ill.; Elwood M. Brake, Jr., of Washington, D.C.; Ed Dunn and Mrs. 
Will Dearing of Plainwell; Mrs. William McMorris and Miss Kathleen McMorris of 
Bay City; Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Powers, Gil Haley, 
all of Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller, of Grand Haven; R. T. Gordon, 
Kenneth Hyma, Phillip Faude, all of Grand Rapids; Mrs. Charles Batson of 
Conklin, Stanley Batson of Wayland, Richard Kennedy of Greenville; Del Harger 
of Rockford; Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Dimmer and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Bell, of 
Detroit; Lloyd Gibbs of Portland; and Mr. and Mrs. Chris Harder of Palo.


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