Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Jonas, Mat 1918
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Belding Banner, 16 Oct 1918

The funeral of Mat Jonas was held from St. Joseph’s Catholic church in this 
city Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock, with a solemn requiem high mass, at which 
Rev. Fr. John A. Klich officiated as celebrant with Rev. F. H. D. McCarthy and 
Fr. John A Gabriels of Ionia, as deacon and sub-deacon.  The funeral was 
private to the immediate relatives and friends and a large concourse of people 
waited outside and followed the body to its last resting place in St. Joseph’s 
Catholic cemetery, where at the grave, Fr. Klich delivered a very impressive 
sermon and tribute to the dead soldier and his relatives.

Mat Jonas is survived by his father and mother and one sister, Miss Agnes 
Jonas, by other relatives in this city and vicinity and by hosts of friends in 
all walks in life who knew him as a big hearted friend and a strictly honorable 
and upright young man.  He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Holy 
Name society.  He was formerly engaged in the grocery business in this city.  
He left this city July 15 and his military career was of the same duration and 
length of time as was Mark Osworth and Chas. Chadwick the three men leaving 
together and dying in the same hospital within 24 hours of one another.

Mat Jonas was born on July 1, 1894 and was 24 years of age.  His funeral was 
the last of the three and the three gold stars which hang on the service flag 
of this city are for the first of Belding’s brave Mark Osworth, Charles 
Chadwick and Mat Jonas, who gave their lives in the great cause of democracy.


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