Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McDiarmid, Dale 1986 ************************************************ 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 June 30, 2011, 7:15 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, December 29, 1986 Dale McDiarmid, 79, of Lake Odessa died Saturday at Provincial House, Hastings. Born May 18, 1907, in Odessa Township, he was the son of Elias and Rosa Shellenbarger McDiarmid. He attended Bretz rural school. He was married to Margaret Proctor May 19, 1941. Until 1946, when he began farming in the Sunfield area, he was employed at Grand Ledge Tile Products. He retired from farming in 1960 and moved to Lake Odessa. Surviving are his wife Margaret; a daughter, Audrey McDiarmid of Kalamazoo; a step-daughter, Mrs. Hugh (Barbara) Peacock of Lake Odessa; two grandchildren and one great grandchild; a sister, Angeline Godfrey of Grand Ledge and a brother, Niles McDiarmid, also of Grand Ledge. Three brothers, Voight, Harold and Hale, and one sister, Lucrettia, preceded him in death. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. from the Koops Funeral Chapel in Lake Odessa. Burial will be in Meadowbrook Cemetery, Mulliken. The family will be at the funeral home Tuesday 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/m/mcdiarmi13935nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb