Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kirgis, Gehr T. 1954
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, November 27, 1954


Gehr T. Kirgis, 55, of Muir died Friday evening at 10:55 at Sparrow Hospital 
in Lansing, where he had been a patient for six weeks.

He was born August 7, 1899, in Ohio, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Kirgis.  
The family moved to Michigan when he was a small child and he attended schools 
in Charlotte.  October 27, 1926 he was married to Mirza Butler at St. Johns 
and lived in Maple Rapids until 1936, when he moved to Muir.  

Surviving besides his bride, Mirza are two sons, R. G. of Lyons, Bernard of 
Grand Rapids, one daughter, Nettie Ann Kirgis at home, his mother, Mrs. Carrie 
Smeltner of Lansing, his father, Allen Kirgis of Charlotte, one brother, 
Reginald of Lansing and four grandchildren

He was employed at the Michigan State Reformatory.  He was  member of Lyons 
lodge F. and A.M. No. 37, of which he was past master, Lyons chapter No. 60, 
OE.S. of which he was past patron.

Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Muir 
Presbyterian church with the Rev. Louis Herrick officiating.  Services will be 
under the auspices of Lyons Lodge F and A.M. No. 37.  Interment will be at 
Oakwood cemetery.  The body reposes at Shaw-Rivett funeral home in Muir until 
the time of the funeral.

Subsequent Publication:  The Ionia Standard, Wednesday, December 1, 1954

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Muir Presbyterian church 
for Gehr Kirgis, 55, who died Friday evening in Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.  
The Rev. Louis Herrick officiated.

Masonic services were conducted by Lyons Lodge F. and A.M. with Carl Miller of 
Wacousta, district deputy instructor, in charge.  Bearers were Kenneth Wood, 
Carol Kennedy, Ralph Kimball, Max Reynolds, Edwin Albright and Stephen 
Kimball.  Mrs. Flynn Woodworth was the organist.  Members of the Eastern Star 
attended in a body, as did the office employees of the Union Telephone Co., 
and a group of members of Co. H., Michigan National Guard, of Ionia.

Those from away attending were his father, Allen Kirgis, of Charlotte; Mrs. 
and Mrs. Bernard Kirgis and son of Grand rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Kirgis 
and Dale of Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Smith Jr., Mrs. Robert Houser, Donald 
Glasscock and Mr. and Mrs. Milo Hart and Kay of Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Fred 
Boltz of Battle Creek; Allen Lesky, Roby Wright and Keith Inglehart of Ionia, 
and Carl Miller of Wacousta.


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