Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lenon, Theo October 1992 ************************************************ 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: LaVonne I. Bennett lib@dogsbark.comMarch 3, 2006, 7:12 pm THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR – Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association; Volume 28, October 1992, Number 2: LENON, THEO, 92, son of Minnie & Barney Lenon, brother of Dorothy Hawkins, widower of Elizabeth Brake Amon, father of Richard Lenon and M. Joan Trezise. He was born in a log cabin on a small farm in Sunfield Township, graduated from Sunfield High School in 1918, served three months in the U. S. Navy in WWI, and three years in the Naval Reserves. He married Elizabeth in 1919 and came home to farm. In 1922 he began working for Smith Brothers Velte & Co. Elevator at their Sunfield branch, eventually became joint owner with several farmers & Smiths, and retired as Manager in 1979. He never lost his love of farming, and operated 700 acres in Sebewa Township on Tupper Lake Road now owned by Lyle & Don Cunningham. He served on the State Milk Commission and the State Agriculture Commission. He traveled in 75 countries of the world and was a popular speaker on his travels, as well as long-time author of a weekly newspaper column giving his out-spoken views on agriculture, politics, world affairs, and life in general. Our most vivid memory of him was going with our folks (Elizabeth was a first cousin to Crystal Brake Slowins) to his farm one evening during World War II. He was busy helping Dan Brovont milk the Jersey (or Guernsey?) cows, but stopped long enough to go with us to get 600 pounds of very scarce 2-12-6 fertilizer from his warehouse so we could plant six acres of wheat. Additional Comments: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, RECENT DEATHS; SUMITTED WITH PERMISSION OF EDITOR, GRAYDEN D. SLOWINS. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/l/lenon638gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb