Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Locher, Charles H. November 3, 1964 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net May 7, 2010, 8:07 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, November 4, 1964 Charles H. Locher, 90, of 28 Church street died November 3 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Talcott in Saranac. Mr. Locher was Saranac’s first rural mail carrier when rural deliveries started in 1902 and continued in that capacity until his retirement in 1935. He was born and raised in Berlin township. His wife, the former Dora M. Earle to whom he was married in 1895, died in August 1950. Also preceding him in death were a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Norman in 1945; two brothers and a sister. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Talcott and Mrs. Ruth Tefft of Saranac, and Mrs. Esther Baie of Moline, Ill.; nine grand and 20 great- grandchildren; and four sisters, Mrs. Rose Ware and Mrs. Anna Anderson of Battle Creek, Mrs. Harriet Lowrey of Lansing and Mrs. Louise Jones of Clearwater, Fla. Funeral service will be Friday at 2:30 p.m. at Morris funeral home with the Rev. Eldon Cummings officiating and interment at Saranac cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/l/locher3788nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb