Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kowatch, Steve 1970
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 14 Oct 1970

Steve Kowatch, 89, formerly of 755 North Jefferson died late Tuesday evening at
Ionia Manor where he had been a patient 18 months.  He was born in Budapest,
Hungary, November 18, 1880, and married in Hungary in 1904.  He came to the
United States in 1905 and his wife and first child followed in 1906 at which
time they made their home in Youngstown, Ohio.  They moved to Fowler, then to
Ionia, to Florida and back to Ionia in 1916 and lived here since.

He learned the milling trade in Hungary on the Danube river but worked in Ionia
as a car repair man for the Pere Marquette car shops and its successor,
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.  He retired from there in 1953.  His wife died in
1939.

Surviving are two sons, Joseph of Ludington and Albert of Morrison lake; two
daughters, Mrs. William Rider of Stanton and Mrs. Sam Conner of Ionia; 13
grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Friday at 3 p.m. at Boynton-Leddick funeral home.  Rev.
A.R. Gallert of St. Johns Lutheran church will officiate and interment will be
at Highland Park cemetery.  Family will be at the funeral home Thursday from 2
to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.


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