Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lafler, Walter 1951
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 20 Dec 1951

Funeral Set For Ionia Veteran

An Ionia man, World War II Pfc with 21 months service in the Pacific theater of
operations with the U.S. Army, died Tuesday, at 4:55 p.m. at Hines veteran’s
hospital in Illinois.

The man, Walter Lafler, 28, of South Bend, Ind., son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Lafler of Route 4, died after being hospitalized almost continuously since
March.  Exact cause of death was unknown and an autopsy is being performed to
determine it.  He has been ill for two years.

He was born April 29, 1923, in Ionia and attended Loomis school in South Ionia.
 He was employed at the Ypsilanti Reed Manufacturing company until he was
inducted into the Army December 28, 1942.  He received most of his training at
Camp McCoy, Wis., and served a total of 21 months with an anti-aircraft coast
artillery group in New Guinea, the Philippines and Japan.  He received his
discharge January 1, 1946, at Camp McCoy and returned home.

On November 10, 1946, he married the former Barbara Pickett of Indiana, formerly
of Grand Rapids.  They made their home in South Bend where he was employed in an
auto plant, until he was taken ill.

Lafler is a member of the Ionia post, V.F.W.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Myers funeral home.  The
Rev. R.A. Rook of St. John’s Lutheran church will officiate.  Interment will be
in Balcom cemetery.


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