Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Melvin, Bever 1949
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Ionia Sentinel - Tuesday, 6 September 1949
Bever, Melvin  
Ionia Sentinel - Tuesday, 6 September 1949

FIRST IONIA POLIO DEATH IS REPORTED
The first Ionia county polio death was announced this morning when Melvin 
Bever, 23 year old Prairie Creek resident, died at 7:3 a.m. Tuesday at 
Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids.  Bever became ill Sunday, Aug, 28 but a 
physician was not called until Wednesday when he lost the use of his legs.  
Bever was removed about 5 p.m. Wednesday to Butterworth hospital where he was 
placed in a chest respirator.  Thursday his condition was reported by hospital 
authorities as being critical and they said that he had been placed on 
the ‘dangerously ill list.’

Melvin was born in Muir, the only child of James and Flossie Bever.  About 
twelve years ago Bever and his mother, Flossie Bever Bell, who survives him, 
moved to Ionia.  Bever was a junk dealer.  Funeral services will be held 
Thursday at 2 p.m. from the Shaw Rivett funeral home in Muir.  Interment will 
be in Muir cemetery.



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