Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Jersey, Neil E. 1943
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The Belding Banner-News, Thursday, April 22, 1943


Neil E. Jersey, aged 60 years, passed away at a hospital in Bucyrus, Ohio, on 
Thursday morning at 10:15, following a long illness, which was caused by a 
complication of diseases.  Prior to his going to the Bucyrus hospital where his 
death occurred. He had been a patient at Ford hospital in Detroit for some 
months.

He was born in this city August 26, 1883, and was the son of the late Edgar W. 
and Ida Madden Jersey, early day residents of this community.  He attended 
local schools and took up the machinists trade in local shops and then went to 
Boyne City where he entered the employ of the Boyne City, Gaylord and Alpena 
Railway, as master mechanic.  Later on he was with the Northern Service Company 
and in 1923 went to Bucyrus, Ohio where he entered the employ of the W. A. 
Riddell Company, manufacturers of road building and maintenance machinery.  His 
first position with that company was as chief engineer.  In 1928 he was 
advanced to sales manager and in 1937 he was advanced to the position of vice 
president and general manager, holding this positions at the time of his 
death.  Some of the Riddell company’s best pieces of machinery were designed by 
Mr. Jersey.

During his boyhood and also through his later life, Mr. Jersey was an ardent 
lover of the outdoors and took great pleasure in hunting and fishing, with each 
succeeding year finding him spending several weeks during the deer season in 
the woods of the northern part of this state.  To his many friends here, as a 
boy he carried the nickname of “Pip” and even now when he was mentioned by his 
friends here, it was usually by that name that he was referred to.

On December 26, 1908 he was married to Miss Minnie Larson of this city, who 
with a brother, Lester E. Jersey, of Boyne City, and a sister, Mrs. Ethel 
Payne, of St. Johns, survive.

Mr. Jersey was active in civic movements in his home community, was a member of 
the Rotary, Elks and Masonic lodges, Scottish Rite and the Shrine and was a 
32nd degree Mason.  He was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran church of Bucyrus, 
and funeral services were held in that city Saturday afternoon with Rev. J. 
David Mumford, his pastor, officiating.

The body was brought to this city on Sunday afternoon and local interment 
ceremony was in charge of Arthur J. Fitzjohn, local funeral director, with Rev. 
H. S. Ellis offering graveside prayers.



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