Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Helmer, Larry LaVerne 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 January 29, 2016, 2:06 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 16 May 1990 Larry L. Helmer, 50, of 186 W. Belding Road, Orleans, died at his residence late Monday morning. He was born in Lake Odessa Nov. 16, 1939, to the parents of Goen and Mina Good Helmer. He was a member of the Michigan Ropers Association and the Michigan and National Paint Horse Club. He married Joy Hoskin April 27, 1976. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, Chuck Helmer of Detroit and Leslie Ferris of Saranac; two daughters, Penny O’Harron of Hastings and Lisa Ferris of Ionia; seven grandchildren; six brothers, Wayne of Lakeview, Bud of Ionia, George of Lakeview, Maynard of Ionia, Thayne of Ionia, and Don of Orleans; two sisters, Beverly Petersen of Belding and Lorraine Cox of Ionia. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the Zion United Methodist Church in Ionia, with the Rev. William Dornbush officiating. Cremation has taken place. The family will be at the Lake Funeral Home in Saranac on Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Memorials have been established for Ionia Area Hospice and the Kidney Foundation, in care of the funeral home. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/h/helmer32346nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb