Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lowry, Melvin R. 1961
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Belding Banner-News, 16 Mar 1961

Former B-N Compositor Dies Sunday.

Melvin R. Lowry, 22, former compositer at the Banner-News died early Sunday
morning from injuries suffered when the car he was riding in was struck by
another at the junction of M-44 and US-131, Friday night.  Lowry was employed by
the Rockford Register at the time of the accident.

According to investigating State Police from the Rockford post, Lowry suffered
brain injuries when the car in which he was riding was hit by another from
Cadillac.  His companion and the occupants of the other car were hospitalized
also.  The driver of the car in which Lowry was riding, Lyle LaPree, 23, also of
Rockford, was reported in fair condition in St. Mary’s hospital, Grand Rapids
with internal injuries.

Jack Benson, 21 occupant of the other car, was hospitalized with right leg and
hand fractures and severe face and leg lacerations.  His companion, Charles J.
Zegoski, 19, was treated at St. Mary’s for face cuts, a finger fracture and a
right knee injury.

Lowry, the father of three children, was born in Bancroft, March 20, 1938, and
had lived in Indiana and at Long lake.  He was married in Belding to Sandra
Lake, June 8, 1957.  She survives.

Also surviving are two daughters, Tammy Jo, 3 and Kimberly Kay, 5 months, and a
son, Melvin, Jr., 2.  Other survivors are his step-father, Alton Perry; and his
mother, Mrs. Priscilla Perry, of Belding; three sisters, Mrs. Howard (Joan)
Cook, Pewamo, and Miss Shirley Perry, Ionia, and Mrs. Terry (Virginia) Wood,
Ionia; three brothers, George and Douglas Correll of Ionia and Richard Perry of
rural Belding.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Huffman Funeral Home, with
the Rev. Gerald Bowen of Bostwick lake officiating and burial was in the Orleans
cemetery.


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