Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lapworth, Robert K. July 25, 1965
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Lake O Wave - July 29, 1965
ROBERT K. LAPWORTH LOCAL BANKER DIED SUNDAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS
   Robert K. Lapworth, 61, passed away Sunday night at Pennock Hospital after a long
illness.  He had been 
hospitalized for the last three weeks.
   A native of the Flushing area, he was a graduate of the Flushing High School and
attended Albion College.
   Mr. Lapworth entered the banking business in 1924 with the Peoples State Bank at
Flushing.  In 1932 he 
became a state bank examiner with the Michigan Banking department where he remained
until 1945 when he 
came to Lake Odessa as cashier of the Union Bank.  After the death of Fredric Baine
he became president of 
the bank. 
   Mr. Lapworth took special interest and was active in all phases of community life
and civic affairs.  He was a 
member of the Central Methodist Church its organizations, and held an office on the
church board.  He was 
past master of the Flushing Masonic lodge, a member of the Lake Odessa Chapter Order
of the Eastern Star 
and Masonic lodge, a member and past president of the Lake Odessa Lions Club, member
of the Ionia 
Country Club, and he had served on the village council.
   He married Gladys M. Luce September 8, 1926, who survives.  Other survivors are
three daughters Mrs. 
Theron (Roberta) King and Mrs. Max (Phyllis) Decker of Lake Odessa and Mrs. Lowell
(Jane) Thomas of 
Midland and nine grandchildren.
   Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 at the Pickens Funeral
Chapel, with burial in 
Lakeside cemetery.  Rev. Luther Brokaw officiated, assisted by Rev. Floyd Fitch of
Muskegon.

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