Ionia-Montcalm County MI Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Delbert August 10, 1953
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Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Tuesday, August 11, 1953
Delbert Johnson, 35, of Palo was fatally burned about 6:30 p.m. Monday when 
accumulated gases exploded when he attempted to light a water heater in the 
basement of his home.  He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Winford Johnson, 230 Adams 
Street.

The explosion took plaster from the dining room wall and tore a door off its 
hinges.  A flash fire  which smoldered in the partitions was extinguished by 
neighbors before the Ionia fire department which was summoned arrived.  

Neighbors removed Johnson from the house and he was rushed to the Sheridan 
Community hospital by Ralph Johnson, special deputy in Palo and a relative of 
the injured man.  Johnson died at the hospital at 3 a.m. Tuesday of burns of the 
entire body.  He had second and third degree burns from the waist up, internal 
burns of the face and severe shock.

Mr. Johnson was born April 22, 1918, near Lowell.  He attended Ionia schools and 
was a farmer before entering the service.  He served with Company H in the 
Pacific and was wounded in December, 1942 in New Guinea.  He was discharged from 
service in August, 1945.  At the time of his death, he was employed at Gibson's.  
He had lived in Palo for the past eight years.

He was past noble grand of Palo I.O.O. F., a member of the Rebekah lodge and 
secretary-treasurer of Company H, Ionia 128th Infantry 32nd Division Reunion 
Association.

Surviving him are his wife, the former Lorraine Ackerson whom he married July 
12, 1941; two sons, his parents; four sisters and a brother.

Services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the Palo Baptist church.  Burial will be in 
Palo Cemetery.  There will be I.O.O.F. services and military services at the 
graveside.  The body is at the Stebbins funeral home in Sheridan.

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