Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Leslie, Joseph A. Sr. December 5, 1969 ************************************************ 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: Maureen Cross mcross3454@gmail.com May 17, 2020, 9:45 pm Lake Odessa Wave SERVICES HELD FOR JOSEPH A. LESLIE Joseph A. Leslie Sr., 84 passed away Friday morning at the Provincial House at Hastings where he had been a patient since Nov. 17 and following a long illness. He was born May 3, 1885, in Ontario, Canada, son of Mrs. and Mrs. George Leslie, and had been a resident of Lake Odessa for 50 years. Mr. Leslie was employed at the Lake Odessa Canning Co. for many years, retiring 12 years ago. In 1927 he married Mattie Kendall who survives with three daughters, Mrs. Gerald (Marie) Kruger, Mrs. Helen Blundell, Mr. Jerry (Shirley) Raymond; a son, Joseph Jr; two stepsons, Howard and Harold Kendall, all of Lake Odessa; four daughters by a former marriage, Mrs. Bernice Larose and Mrs. Lillian Blanding, both of Greenville; Mrs. Hazel Smith of Belding and Mrs. Ted (Elizabeth) Richard of Lapeer, and 19 grandchildren. Funeral services were held Monday at 1:30 at the Pickens Funeral Chapel at Lake Odessa. Rev. Norman Wibert officiated, with burial in Lakeside Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/l/leslie36782nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb