Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Leslie, Irving A. January 18, 1935
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Portland Observer - Thurs. Jan. 24, 1935


Irving A. Leslie, 65 years of age, died at his home in Ionia Friday afternoon 
following an illness of heart disease. Funeral services were held at Ionia 
Sunday afternoon with Rev. John H. Stewart officiating. The Portland F. and 
A.M. lodge, to which Mr. Leslie had been a member for many years, had charge of 
the services, with eight of his brothers members, acting as bearers. They were 
R.W. Dawdy, F.L. Jenkins, O.S. Rice, Ray Stewart, George Fishell, Peter 
Trierweiler, Fred England and Robert Lockwood.

Mr. Leslie was born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1869, and at the age of 30 years was 
united in marriage to Pheobe Sickles, in Buffalo. After coming to Michigan they 
spent a year in Milan and then came to Portland where Mr. Leslie was employed 
by the Portland Milling company and later by the village as engineer at the 
water works. Nineteen years ago the family moved to Ionia where he had been 
employed as engineer at the Safford manufacturing plant for 12 years and at the 
Michigan reformatory for the past seven years. Besides the widow he is survived 
by three children, Paul Leslie, of Ionia; Mrs. John Colizzi and Mrs. Vera 
McLean, both of Charlotte. He was a member and past master of the Portland 
Masonic order and member of the Ionia Moose lodge.





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