Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Newhouse, Benjamin F. 1936
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, 14 Dec 1936

Benjamin F. Newhouse, 99, for 40 years a resident of Traverse City and a former 
Muir resident, died at the home of friends there late Saturday night.  He would 
have been 100 years of age April 9.  He was regarded as the oldest Traverse 
City resident.  He had no particular ailment, doctors there declared, but had 
been in bed since August because of a weakened condition brought on by old age.

One daughter, Mrs. A. E. Cottingham, of Ionia, survives.  There are two 
granddaughters and two great-granddaughters.

Funeral services are to be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Traverse 
City.  Burial will be there.

The Traverse City American Legion, of which he was an honorary member, will 
conduct the services.  He served four years during the Civil war as a member of 
Company K, 79th Ohio infantry.  He was a native of Ohio and moved to Muir where 
he operated a general store for a number of years.  He helped construct the 
Tabor theater of St. Louis and was a contractor in his later years.  

…[missing words] attended in a body and acted as an honorary escort.  Frank M. 
Wirtz was the bugler.

Relatives from out-of-town attending the funeral were Mrs. Frank Shong, Mr. and 
Mrs. Clyde Guernsey, Mr. and Mrs. John Staley of Middleton; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde 
Wirtz, Miss Virginia Wirtz of Pontiac; Carl Wirtz, Mr. and Mrs. John Shong of 
Lansing; Mrs. Arial Howe of Perrinton; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Summer, Mr. and Mrs. 
Stanley Lacey of Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. MacFarland, Dr. V.J. Hooper 
of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Shong, Mr. and Mrs. William Vanderveck of Ellwell.


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