Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Miner, Otis October 27, 1945
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Lake Odessa Wave 
          OTIS MINER DIED SATURDAY AT 82
   Otis Miner, 82, well known Lake Odessa business man passed away at his home here
Saturday forenoon after several months of suffering from the infirmities of old age.  
He had been one of the most active and prominent persons here since the village was 
started in 1887.  He was one of the few remaining pioneers of the village.
   Mr. Miner was born July 4, 1803, north of Lake Odessa, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Horace F. Miner, who opened up a store at Bonanza Corners in 1876 at which time Otis 
began his mercantile life.  In 1881 he was taken into the business as a partner and 
the firm name was changed to H. F. Miner & Son.
   The village of Lake Odessa was started in the spring of 1887, and during the
following spring the firm moved its store building and stock to the new village to the 
south.  Seeing the need for a hotel in the rapidly growing village the senior member 
erected the three story structure now known as the Senters Apartments, and named it 
the Miner Hotel.
   The store, which was located on the next lot north of the hotel, was turned over
to the son Otis, in 1892 who continued the business until he retired in 1929.
   Mr. Miner, intensely interested in his home town, took an active part in general
public affairs.  He was appointed postmaster here in 1905 and held that office until 
1913.  He was the first chief of the local fire department and continued in that 
capacity about 15 years.  He was prominently identified with the Knights of Pythias 
lodge for many years, and was a director of the old Lake Odessa State Savings Bank 
over a long period of time.
   Mr. Miner was made a justice of the peace some 12 or 15 years ago and continued
to hold that position until after he became confined to his home.  In later years he 
was employed in the credit department of the Lake Odessa Canning Co. for 10 or 12 years 
until failing health force his retirement a couple of years ago.
     Mr. Miner was first united in marriage to Mrs. Dora Stowell who later died, and
then a few years later, in 1906, he took as a life partner Mrs. Jennie Roe.  To this 
union a daughter, now Mrs. Thurlow Nicol, was born.
   Surviving are the widow, the daughter, two step-children, Mrs. G. William
Brummeler in Grand Rapids, and Neil W. Roe, Lake Odessa.
   Funeral services were held at the home Monday afternoon with a cousin, the Rev.
Irving Minor of Kalamazoo officiating.   Burial was in Lakeside cemetery.

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