Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kench, James E. 1933
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, February 3, 1933

James Kench, 82, of South Ionia, died Thursday afternoon following a long 
illness.  Funeral services will be conducted at the Bradley funeral home 
Sunday afternoon at 2:30.  those wishing to view the remains may call at the 
Bradley funeral home.  Burial will be in the Highland Park cemetery.

Mr. Kench was a native of England.  He was married in 1870 to Hannah Atkinson 
in St. Luke’s church, London, Eng., and came to the United States in 1882, 
having at that time three children, Frank, Thomas and Charles.  They located 
in Indiana, but moved to Michigan a few years later, and have lived in this 
locality since.

He was a gardener by profession, and continued in this work after his arrival 
here.  He worked for a time under Medical Superintendent Grant while the Ionia 
hospital was on this side of the river, and had also been employed as a 
gardener at the institution in recent years.  He was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church.

Mrs. Kench survives.  Of their 10 children, but five are living.  These are: 
Frank, of Ashley; Charles, of Ionia; Albert, Horace and Mrs. Bessie Park, of 
Lansing.

Subsequent Publication:  Monday, February 6, 1933

Dr. M. W. Duffey, with Rev. A. T. Luther assisting, conducted the funeral 
services Sunday afternoon for James Kench, South Ionia, at the Bradley home, 
where the body has reposed since his death Thursday afternoon.  Burial was in 
the Highland Park cemetery.

“Face to Face,” and Abide With Me” were the selections sung by Chandler 
Haight, Mrs. Lillian Ashdown Jennings, accompanying him on the piano.

There were a large number of friends joining the relatives for the services, 
and relatives, Clarence Parr, Buster Parr, Charles Kench, Jr., and Gerald 
Coates, and Sidney Munn and H. J. Callow served as bearers.


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