Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lawrence, Urba G. 1935
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, June 3, 1935

Urba G. Lawrence, 50, lifelong resident of Ionia county, died at his home, 112 
Wood avenue, Sunday morning following a long illness. He had been in poor 
health for the past three years, but had been seriously ill for the past year.

He was born in Orange township, September 31, 1885 the son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Zack Lawrence.  He attended the Ritenberg school in Orange township and later 
when his parents moved to Portland and he attended the high school there.  He 
was married October 10, 1906, and he and Mrs. Lawrence lived for a number of 
years in Orange township and near Tremaynes corners in Berlin township where 
Mr. Lawrence worked for Jay Harwood.  They moved to Lake Odessa about 11 years 
ago and for a time Mr. Lawrence did carpenter work.  They came to Ionia 10 
years ago and he was employed as assistant hall master at the Michigan 
reformatory for a number of years.

Surviving are his widow; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Duffey, of Gun Lake; and 
Mrs. Letha O’Conner, Lake Odessa; his mother in Arizona; one brother, William 
Lawrence, of Swan Lake, Montana; one sister, in the west; a half brother, 
Robert Lawrence, of Grand Rapids; one granddaughter, Phyllis Duffey.

Funeral services will be held from the home Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 with 
Rev. Fr. Edwin G. White, pastor of St. John’s Episcopal church, officiating.  
Interment will be at the family lot at Lakeside cemetery.


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