Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hitchcock, William H. 1987 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net June 13, 2013, 6:09 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, November 20, 1987 William H. Hitchcock, 77, of Ionia died Thursday at Ionia County Memorial Hospital. Born Jan. 7, 1910, in Orange Township, he was the son of Jeff and Mary Courtnay Hitchcock. He was married to Evelyn Bowen May 16, 1936, in Angola, Ind. A farmer, he was also employed at General Tire (DiversiTech General) for 31 years, retiring in 1974. He was a member of Ionia Senior Citizens. Surviving are his wife Helen; two daughters, Mrs. Hoye (Mary Ella) Wireman of Ionia and Mrs. Gary (Connie) Shoemaker of Kalamazoo; a son, Robert of Fenton; four grandchildren, one great granddaughter, and a sister, Beatrice Shramm of Portland, and his twin brother, Thomas Hitchcock of Florida. Funeral services will be Monday at 11 a.m. from the Rich Street Chapel of Cook Funeral Home, with the Rev. Kathryn Coombs officiating. Burial will be in Easton Cemetery. The family will be at the funeral home from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Memorials have been established for Easton United Methodist Church or the American Lung Association. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/h/hitchcoc20800nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb