Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lapo, Robert J. 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net March 11, 2010, 4:02 pm Hastings Banner, 30 Jul 1979 Robert J. Lapo, 67, of 418 E. Francis St., Hastings, died Sunday afternoon, July 29, at Pennock Hospital where he had been a patient for 1 week. Services will be Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. at the Pickens Koops Chapel in Lake Odessa with Pastor Russell Houseman and Pastor Jeremiah Bishop officiating. Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery. He was born Dec. 15, 1911, in Lyons Township, Ionia County, the son of Melvin and Florence (McQuillan) Lapo. He graduated from Lake Odessa High School in 1929 and Ferris School of Pharmacy in 1933. He married Iris Tischer of September 5, 1931 in Albion, Indiana. They lived in the Lake Odessa area several years before moving to Hastings where he owned and operated the Lapo Drug Store, retiring in 1967. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Hastings. Surviving are his wife, Iris; 1 daughter, Mrs. Ronald (Marilyn) Houseman of Englewood, Calif; two grandchildren; 1 sister, Mrs. Lawrence (Hazel) Albright of Lyons; one aunt, Mrs. Ida McQuillan of Lyons. A brother, Raymond, preceded him in death July 3, 1976. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/l/lapo2975nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb