Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....MacComber, Frank C.  1946
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Ionia County News – Thursday, 10 January 1946

Frank C. MacComber, 144 E. Lincoln Avenue, died Monday evening, January 7, 
after a long illness.  Funeral service will be at two o’clock Thursday 
afternoon, January 10, from Stone Funeral Home.  Rev. Wayne Davis of the 
Church of Christ will officiate and burial will be in the Highland Park 
Mausoleum.  Mr. MacComber was born April 19, 1858, at Breedville, Kalamazoo 
County, Michigan.  He was one of a pair of twins and the twin sister died ten 
years ago.  His boyhood days were spent on the home farm and as a young man he 
was foreman of the Coach department of the P.M.R.R. at Muskegon.  Later he 
moved to Jacksonville, Ill. to accept a position with the C. P. & St. Louis 
RR.  Leaving that position, he was instructor in painting at the state school 
for the deaf at Jacksonville until moving to Ionia in 1905.  He was employed 
here in the P. M. RR. shops until the shops were moved to Saginaw in the 
1930’s.  Since that time he has been retired.  He is survived by a daughter, 
Mrs. C. Benjamin.

Mr. MacComber had been a member of the Church of Christ since 1906 was also a 
member of the Berean class of the church; past worshipful master of the 
Harmony Lodge, F. & A. M. of Jacksonville, Ill.; and at the time of his death 
was a member of Ionia Lodge F & A. M. No. 36, Ionia Chapter, R. A. M. No. 14, 
and in June 1945 became a life member of Ionia Commandery Knights Temple No. 
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