Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Higbee, Richard Murl 1975
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, February 27, 1975

Richard Murl Higbee, 63, of Nickle Plate road died Wednesday afternoon at 
Veterans hospital in Saginaw after being a patient ten days.  Born in Pewamo 
August 5, 1911, he was the son of Roscoe and Madge Stoddard Higbee and 
attended the Pewamo school.  He had lived most of his life in Ionia county 
where he worked on a farm several years. He later was employed at the Integral 
Engineering company until the time of his retirement in 1971.

July 18, 1964 he was married in Saranac to Mary Mier and they owned and 
operated the Higbee Rest home on Nickle Plate the past 11 years.  He had 
served with the air force in World War II with most of his service in the 
South Pacific area.  He was a member of the Statewide Home Care Association.

He is survived by his wife, Mary; son Richard A. Higbee of Belding; three 
granddaughters; two brothers, Glen of Bath and Sylvester of Mason; sister, 
Mrs. Bernita Mooney of Nashville and half sister, Mrs. Ginger Webster of 
Florida.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Leddick funeral home.  Rev. 
Harold Johnson of the First Presbyterian church will officiate and interment 
will be at the Tuttle cemetery.  members of the family will be at the funeral 
home Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.



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