Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Little, Allie Merle March 14, 1923
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Daily Sentinel-Standard, Tues., Mar 20, 1923
Allie Merle Little was born in Ronald township, Ionia county, o April 11, 1896. 
At the age of two years he came to Palo with his parents where he resided and 
finished his school course. He then held a position in the butternut bank until 
September 17, 1917, when he entered the service of the United State for the 
World war, and on January 3, 1918, he sailed for France, one of 200 brave boys 
who went as a motor transport company. He was in La Havre, France, 17 months 
and there contracted tubercular trouble. After everything could be done at 
home, he went to Colorado to seek his health. His parents spent the winder of 
1921-22 with him in Denver. On April 29, 1922, he was married to Grace Olive 
Crane, of Boulder, Colo. On October 15, 1922, Merle and his wife went by auto 
to Deming, New Mexico, where they remained till just before his death.

On January 15 word came of Merle's serious condition, and at once his loving 
parents started to his bedside and were with him and Mrs. Merle Little to the 
last. On March 12, at Merle's request, Mrs. Merle and his parents started for 
Palo, and just before reaching Chicago on Wednesday morning, March 14, Merle 
passed away, aged 26 years, 11 months and five days. He leaves to mourn his 
loss his wife; Olive; father, mother and one sister, Mrs. Ted Sherwood, of Palo 
and a host of relatives and friends.

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Burial in Palo cemetery

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