Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Moore, Ralph 1972
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Ionia Sentinel, 17 Feb 1972

A native Ionian and former Michigan dairy inspector for 25 years, Ralph Moore, 
died Thursday morning in Butterworth hospital at age 79.  He had been ill from 
a stroke since 1962.

Born in Ionia, December 5, 1892, he was a son of the late John and Clara Dunn 
Moore, and formerly operated Moore’s Dairy farm on North Jefferson road.  He 
went to work for the State of Michigan as an inspector in 1935, while living in 
the Ionia area for some 50 years, then retired in 1957 only to work part time 
for the federal government as a dairy product sampler-tester.  In recent years 
he made his home at 8065 East Fulton, in Ada, where he was a member of the 
Congregational church.

Survivors include his wife, the former Lucy Lovell; four daughters, Mrs. 
Ambrose Stoddard, Mrs. Royce Waters, and Mrs. Thomas Westbrook, al of Ionia; 
Mrs. John Case of Fennville, and a step-daughter, Mrs. John Ellis of Grand 
Rapids, 15 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.

The body is at O’Brien-Gerst funeral chapel at 3980 West Cascade road and I-96 
Expressway where services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, the Rev. Dale Charters 
and Rev. Jack Richards of the Congregational church officiating.  Friends and 
relatives may visit the chapel Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. and Friday from 2 to 4 
p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m.  Burial will be in Coral cemetery.


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