Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Keister, Ruth (Campau) January 17, 1972
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Sentinel-Standard - Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1972

A former Ionia resident, Mrs. Ruth Keister, died early Tuesday morning in 
Martinsville, Ind. She had suffered a stroke shortly after Christmas and 
another just prior to her death.

She came to Ionia with her parents, Daniel and Mary Campau, in 1903. She 
married C.B. Keister whose father, Fred Keister I, founder of Ionia County 
News. Her husband preceded her in death in 1951.

She and her husband had owned and operated a weekly newspaper at Hazel Park 
then bought and operated a newspaper at Middleville.

Following the death of her husband she bought a radio station in Hillsdale 
which she and her son operated a few years before selling it to begin a new 
radio station at Martinsville, Ind., which she and her son operated at the time 
of her death.

Surviving are the son, David Keister of Martinsville; four grandchildren, two 
sisters, Mrs. Kenneth McGregor of Birmingham and Mrs. Glenn Bradley of 
Washington, D.C.; two brothers Harry Campau of Holland and Gordon of Grand 
Rapids.

Graveside services will be Friday at 1 pm Oak Hill cemetery, Ionia. Rev. Jack 
Richards of First Congregational church of Ada will officiate.

Funeral arrangements were made by Leddick funeral home. 

Additional Comments:
Services: Friday, 20 January, 1972
Oak Hill cemetery

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