Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kingman, William E. 1942
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Lake Odessa Wave, 16 & 23 Apr 1942

William Kingman Died Tues. Evening.

Leaves Wife, One Son, One Daughter, Two Step-Daughters, Two Sisters, One 
Brother.  Funeral Friday P.M.

William Kingman, who has been ill a long time, passed away Tuesday evening at 
his home on Tupper Lake street at the age of 72 years.

Mr. Kingman was born in Benton township near Charlotte on February 20, 1870.  
He settled on a farm in Odessa in 1895 where he lived until coming to Lake 
Odessa in 1934.

His first marriage was to Carrie Hulet who died in childbirth leaving a 
daughter now Mrs. Mabel Claflin at Jackson.  In 1895, he was married to Mrs. 
Jennie Geddes who died April 19, 1929, leaving a son Paul and a daughter Miss 
Mildred Geddes.

On January 6, 1930, he was married to Mrs. Ella Kart.  He was a member of the 
local Methodist church, the Masonic lodge, and the Eastern Star, the Odd 
Fellows and Rebekahs, and the Townsend club.

He was greatly respected and had many friends.  He leaves besides the widow, 
one son Paul at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., one daughter, Mrs. Mabel Claflin at 
Jackson, two step-daughters Miss Mildred Geddes at Ypsilanti and Mrs. Bert 
Gilliland at Lake Odessa, two sisters Mrs. Daisy Goodnoe and Mrs. Stella 
Upright at Charlotte, a brother, H. J. in Battle Creek, 12 grandchildren and 
two great-grandchildren.  The funeral will be held from the Wortley & Baine 
chapel Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
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Will Kingman Funeral Was Largely Attended

The Wortley & Baine chapel was filled with the relatives and friends of Mr. and 
Mrs. William E. Kingman for the funeral of Mr. Kingman Friday.  The Rev. Edward 
H. Humphrey of Saranac, a close friend of the family officiated and the music 
was by Mrs. Virginia Yonkers and sister Mrs. Lawrence Wait.  Burial was at 
Lakeside cemetery.

Among those from out of town who were in attendance at the funeral were Mr. and 
Mrs. Carl Anderson of Port Huron and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cowels of Kalamazoo, 
grandchildren; Paul W. Kingman of Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Miss Mildred Geddes 
of Ypsilanti; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Claflin and Mrs. Christeen O’Neal, Jackson.

Mrs. Blanche Burns, Burlington, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Burt, mother and 
Marilyn and Bruce, Flint; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kingman, Battle Creek; Mrs. Bert 
Bunker, Mason; Wallace Ledyard and three daughters, Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. 
John Burt and Mrs. Kenneth Burt, Lansing, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Livingston, 
Otsego; Mrs. Estella Upright, Charlotte, and son Floyd from a training camp in 
Mississippi.  Mrs. Mary Gibson, Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. James Robbins, Mr. and 
Mrs. Russell Upright, Charlotte.

Bearers were grandsons Karl, George, Wayne, Charles and Thomas Gilliland, and 
Ernest L. Burt, a nephew, of Flint.


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