Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McGannon, Thomas November 8, 1922
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The Ionia Sentinel, Wednesday, November 8, 1922
Headlines:  Death of Thos. McGannon is sad news here.  Was Loyal and Lifelong 
Citizen of Ionia, Where He Has Filled a Prominent Place; Funeral Friday.

Thomas McGannon, lifelong loyal citizen, passed away at 5 o’clock this morning 
at St. Mary’s hospital, Grand Rapids, where he had been for several days. In a 
critical condition, following two serious operations performed there in the 
hope of saving his life. Basal meningitis was given as the cause of his death 
which occurred but a few weeks after he had passed his fifty-eighth birthday 
on October 22.  Mr. McGannon had been ill for a long time and his condition 
became acute a short time when a careful examination by Grand Rapids 
physicians resulted in the determination to operate.  A second operation was 
performed last Saturday.  Tuesday his condition became very grave and it was 
not thought Tuesday evening that he would live through the night.

Thomas McGannon was one of Ionia’s staunchest sons.  He had been a resident of 
this city since he was two years of age when he was brought to Ionia from his 
birthplace Cincinnati, Ohio.  He spent his boyhood here and in the years of 
his manhood occupied a position of worth in his community as a true, loyal, 
and industrious factor in its business and social life.  For 20 years Mr. 
McGannon was a boilermaker in the Pere Marquette shops and when he left there 
to enter business he was the oldest employee in point of service in that 
department.

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Mr. McGannon leaves besides his widow, eight children, Charles of Detroit, 
Lawrence, Mary, Joseph, Olive, Catherine, Jean and Sarah, and one sister Mrs. 
W. H. Hearsey, of Ionia.

The funeral services will be held at the church of SS. Peter and Paul Friday 
morning at 9 o’clock and burial will be in Mt. Olivet.

Subsequent Publication

Ionia Sentinel, Friday, 10 November, 1922

Headline:  Business Men Pay Sincere Tribute to Associate of Many Years

SS. Peter and Paul’s church was filled this morning with friends of the late 
Thomas McGannon to attend the funeral services for him which were held at 9 
o’clock with Solemn Requiem Mass sung by Rev. Fr. A. C. Schneider, of Fowler, 
celebrant; Rev. Fr. J. A. Klich, of Belding, deacon, and Rev. Fr. Hugh D. 
McCarthy, sub-deacon.  Rev. Fr. H. D. McCarthy gave the funeral talk in which 
he paid a splendid tribute to the memory of the dead, emphasizing his loyalty 
to his Christianity and the high type of his devotion to duty in every station 
of life.  It was as fine a eulogy as one man could pay to another, and found 
accord in the hearts of the many who heard the final tribute of praise to this 
latest one of Ionia’s loyal sons to step into the Great Beyond.

Pallbearers represented the Knights of Columbus and the many other friends of 
Mr. McGannon and were E. F. Gallagher, William G. Longe, Thomas A. Carten, 
Frank Wirtz, Alex McAlary, and M. D. Wilson, with all of whom Mr. McGannon had 
been closely intimate during many years and who were representative of the 
numberless sincere friendships that have marked his passing through the life 
of his community.

Among those who came here from a distance to attend the funeral were Mr. and 
Mrs. Thomas Grace, Mrs. Sarah Kilduff, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kilduff of 
Carson City; Mr. and Mrs. William McGowan of Hubbardston, Mrs. Bertha Scully 
and William H. Barrett of Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Spencer of Flint, 
Samuel Krause and Oscar Hirth of the Hirth-Krause Company, Grand Rapids. 

Burial took place in Mt. Olivet cemetery.

Business places in Ionia were closed this morning for an hour out of respect 
for the memory of Thomas McGannon, who for the past 20 years had been 
identified with the business life of Ionia as closely as any man upon the 
street.  The action of his business associates was a distinct tribute to his 
worth as a citizen in his community.



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