Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Houghton, Edwin J. 1886
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Ionia Sentinel Standard
HOUGHTON, EDWIN J.:

   IONIA SENTINEL-STANDARD, MI; May 15, 1962, front page:  "Edwin J. Houghton Is
Dead - Edwin J. Houghton, 66, traffic manager of the Ionia Manufacturing Company
and for many years an official of that firm and its predecessor, the Ypsilanti
Reed Furniture Company, died at 11:30 p.m., Monday at Blodgett Memorial hospital
in Grand Rapids after a two weeks illness.
   A resident of Ionia for 33 years, he was an active conservationist and was
instrumental in the establishment of the Ionia County Fishing and Hunting club
and other programs relating to nature.  He was an avid outdoorsman and traveled
extensively in this country, Canada and Mexico.  He photographed many of his
expeditions and was for many years in demand as a speaker using his travels for
topics.
   He was born May 8, 1898 at Ithaca, N.Y., the son of Professor Charles Edwin
and Anna Boschen Houghton.  Professor Houghton was a member of the Columbia
university staff for many years.
   Mr. Houghton was graduated from New York university and following his
graduation entered the United States Navy serving as a lieutenant in 1917
remaining there until 1920 serving throughout World War I.  His service included
action in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Caribbean.
   He was married to Katherine Timm in New York City, December 5, 1922.  The
couple moved to Chicago where Mr. Houghton became identified with the Chicago
office of the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company in Ionia in 1925 and became
manager of that sales office in 1927.  In 1929 they moved to Ionia where he
became sales manager and vice president of the firm.  He remained with the
personnel when the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company became the Ionia
Manufacturing Company, a division of Mitchell-Bentley Corporation.  He served in
several capacities, the latest of which was traffic manager.
  He served one term as a member of the Ionia city board of education for four
years and was the board's secretary.  In state conservation circles he was an
important member of the Michigan United Conservation clubs legislative committee
early in that association's formation years.  Interested in penalogy he served
on public boards set up to study the state's penal problems.
   Mr. Houghton was a special deputy sheriff for many years serving under
several sheriffs.
   A member of Ionia SS. Peter and Paul Catholic church, he belonged to the
Legion of Mary.  He was also a member of the Ionia American Legion and the Ionia
County Hunting and Fishing club of which he was a past president.  Each summer
he worked with the Mexican Apostolate.
   Surviving are his wife, Katherine; three daughters, Mrs. H. Frank Beeman of
East Lansing, Mrs. John W. Blair of Westerville, Ohio, and Mrs. Mervin
Buckingham of Huntington, W. Va; two sons, Peter Houghton of Marshall and
Frederick Lord Houghton, a student at Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom; six
grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Evelyn Sullivan of Scarsdale, N.Y.
   Requiem High Mass will be sung at 9 a.m. at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic
church Thursday.  Burial will be at Mt. Olivet cemetery east of Ionia. 
Recitation of the rosary will be Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Myers funeral home. 
   A memorial is being established for the Legion of Mary of the SS. Peter and
Paul church."

   IONIA SENTINEL-STANDARD, MI; May 18, 1962:  "DEATHS - EDWIN J. HOUGHTON -
Solemn Requiem High Mass was sung at 9 o'clock Thursday morning at SS. Peter and
Paul church for Edwin J. Houghton, 66, 442 Rich street, who died Monday night
after an illness of two weeks.
   The Rev. Fr. Thomas Schiller was mass celebrant, assisted by Fr. Vincent J.
Kamarauskas of Ionia and Fr. E. R. Fox of Hubbardston.  Interment was at Mt.
Olivet cemetery.
   Bearers were Donald Mitchell, Arthur Brown, Leon Lockwood, Wilson Dalzell,
Harold Schmidt and Robert Beard.
   Among out of town persons attending were Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Lowe of Detroit,
Jack Rvdarsyk of Grand Rapids, Dr. and Mrs. G. E. Buckingham of Meadville, Pa.,
and Mrs Evelyn Sullivan of Scarsdale, N.Y."


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