Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kunzi, Clayton W. 1954
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Portland Review – Thursday, 15 April 1954
Kunzi, Clayton W.
DOD:  Sunday, 11 April 1954

Ionia County’s 1954 highway death toll zoomed to five Sunday when four 
fatalities, one near Portland, were recorded.  Clayton Kunzi, 31, of Lyons, 
died at St. Lawrence hospital, Lansing, at 8:05 a.m. Sunday from injuries 
received in an auto accident seven hours earlier, three miles north of 
Portland on Divine Highway, near Portland Country Club.  

Sunday afternoon at Saranac Mrs. Clayton Smith, 35, of Grand Rapids, Karl 
Smith, 7, and Shirley Smith, 4, both of Saranac, were killed when the car in 
which they were riding was struck by a train at a crossing.

Chief of Police Jay Clark said that Mr. Kunzi was pinned under the car in 
which he had been a passenger.  The car was driven by Henry Rogers 61, of 
Lyons, and Max Webberburn, 29, of Ionia, was also a passenger, Chief Clark 
reported.  The local officer said that the Rogers car was headed north, its 
occupants returning from work at a Lansing factory, when it and another auto, 
going south apparently collided at about 1:00 a.m.  The other car was driven 
by Cleveland Howard, 27, of Charlotte, and he was accompanied by Fred Reed, 
36, of Portland.  Chief Clark said.  Neither was injured.  The Rogers car 
rolled over and was badly wrecked, but the other auto was not so seriously 
damaged.

The Neller ambulance from Portland, took Mr. Kunzi and Mr. Rogers to the 
hospital at Lansing.  Mr. Rogers suffered leg injuries. 

Funeral services for Mr. Kunzi were held at Muir on Wednesday afternoon, with 
burial at Muir.  Surviving are the widow, Irma; a son, John, 6; his parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kunzi of Muir; and a sister, Mrs. Gerald Miller of Fowler.





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