Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Leiter, William James August 19, 1957 ************************************************ 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: Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com May 23, 2017, 12:42 pm Ionia County News - Thursday, Aug. 22, 1957 FALL FROM BIKE FATAL TO CHILD Funeral Service Thursday, August 22, For William Leiter, 5 William James Leiter, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Leiter, of RFD 4, Ionia, died at the Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids, Tuesday morning, August 19. He was taken to the hospital late Monday afternoon. William fell from his bicycle Saturday afternoon onto the pavement but did not seem to feel any effects from it until Sunday, when he complained of an earache and then went into convulsions. He is survived by his parents; and five brothers and sisters, Velma, Shirley, Marlene, Johnnie, and Stanley; his grandparents, Mr. Glenn Leiter, of Muskegon, and Mrs. Florence Battles, of Clare. Funeral service will be held on Thursday, August 23, at the Myers Funeral Home at 2:00 p.m. Rev. Charles Warner will officiate and burial will be in Balcom Cemetery. Additional Comments: Age: 5 Funeral: Thursday, 22 August, 1957 Balcom cemetery File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/l/leiter6284gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb