Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Messer, Donald O. July 7, 1954
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, July 8, 1954
Donald O. Messer, 45, of rural Fowler, died Wednesday, July 7, at 10:30 a.m. 
at St. Johns Hospital.  He had been in ill health for some time.  He was born 
August 27, 1908 in Lebanon township, Clinton County, the son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Orvias Messer, and attended rural schools there.  He moved to Lyons with his 
parents and graduated from Lyons high school and attended Central Michigan 
College at Mt. Pleasant.  He was married April 1, 1934 to Miss Lois Carmine of 
Florida and in 1936 they moved form Lyons to their present farm home north of 
Fowler.

Mr. Messer was a member of the Farm Bureau, the United Brethren church at 
Matherton, the Wright L. Coffinberry chapter of the Archeological Society of 
Michigan in Grand Rapids, and a member and past officer of the Michigan State 
Archeological Society.  He discovered the Indian mounds which were recently 
unearthed on the prairie lands at Lyons and he made a study of early American 
history and collected many Indian relics.

Surviving besides his wife, Lois, are three daughters, Ruth Mary, Sharon and 
Sandra; one son, Theron; his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Messer, at the farm home; and 
one sister, Mrs. Farley Tubbs of Lansing.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, July 10, with prayer service at 
his home at 2 o’clock and services at the Matherton Community Church at 2:30 
with the Rev. Benjamin Blem of the United Brethren church at Carson City 
officiating assisted by the Rev. Mr. Davis of the Matherton United Brethren 
church.  Interment will be at East Plains cemetery.


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