Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Luther, Floyd A. 1973
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 12 Nov 1973

Floyd A. Luther, 81, of 327 Pearl, died Saturday morning at Blodgett Memorial 
hospital in Grand Rapids where he had been a patient the past three weeks.

Born at Entrican, Montcalm county, April 5, 1892, he was the son of Jay and 
Mary Comden Luther and attended rural schools in Montcalm county.  He worked in 
a meat market in Entrican before barbering at Six Lakes. 

He entered the service in World War I July 1918, and served in France.  He was 
discharged from the service in July of 1919 and returned to Six Lakes before 
going to California for ten years.  He returned to Michigan in 1932 settling in 
Greenville where he worked at the Sanitary Barber shop until moving to Ionia to 
open his own barbershop in 1946.

In 1957 he sold his barber business and worked part time cutting hair in 
Hubbardston until 1969.

In 1932 he was married to Vida Porter at Entrican and she survives.  He was a 
member of First United Methodist church and Ionia Veterans of World War I 
barracks.

Surviving besides the wife, Vida of Ionia, are a son, Thomas of Lansing; two 
grandchildren; brother, Rupert of Placerville, California; sister, Mrs. Lucille 
Dunn of Sacramento, Calif.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Leddick funeral home.  Rev. 
Charles Fullmer of First United Methodist church will officiate and interment 
will be at Entrican cemetery.  A memorial fund has been established for the 
American Cancer society.


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