Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Leak, Maurice 1988 ************************************************ 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 January 14, 2015, 12:41 am Ionia Sentinel Standard, 25 Nov 1988 Lake Odessa - Maurice Leak, 87, of Goddard Road, Lake Odessa, died Wednesday in Pennock Hospital, Hastings. He was born Nov. 3, 1901, in Sebewa Township, the son of Edwin and Hermena Bulling Leak. He attended Goddard rural school and Lake Odessa High School. He lived and farmed in Sebewa all his life. He was married to Bertha Jackson on Nov. 16, 1936, in Angola, Ind. She died in 1965. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Sebewa. Surviving are three sons and two daughters: Maurice Leak of Edmore, Larry Leak of Ionia, Janice Leak of Lake Odessa, Donna Tyler of Lowell, and Dennis Leak of Charlotte, N.C. Also surviving are seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren, and a brother and a sister, Maynard Leak of Lansing and Naomi Gattner, also of Lansing. A brother, Zeno, and a sister, Mildred, preceded him in death. Funeral services were Friday at 1 p.m. from the Koops Funeral Chapel, Lake Odessa. The Rev. Robert Wessell and the Rev. Dick Cross officiated. Burial was in the Sebewa Cemetery. The family was at the funeral home Friday from 2-4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. A memorial for First Baptist Church of Sebewa has been established, in the care of the funeral home. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/l/leak29476nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb