Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Olmstead, Jay 1951
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, 10 May 1951


Headline:   Well Known Man Buried at Orleans After Long Illness

Jay Olmstead, 69, of Orleans, died at University Hospital in Ann Arbor Saturday 
at 11 p.m.  He had been in failing health for about three months, the last four 
weeks in the Ann Arbor Hospital.  

Mr. Olmstead was born at Portland, July 26, 1882, the son of William and 
Jeanette Olmstead, who with their family moved to Orleans when he was nine 
years old and where he spent most of his life with the exception of one and one-
half years in Carson City where he conducted a barber shop.

August 14, 1907, he married Miss Maude Clements of Orleans.  He had been in 
business in Orleans since 1908 when he first opened a barber shop and store 
which he later enlarged and added a large of stock of groceries, meats, and 
confectionery.  Due to failing health, he sold the store to Mr. and Mrs. Harold 
Clingensmith a few years ago.  He was a charter member of the Orleans Grange.

He is survived by his widow of Orleans, two sons, Dean and Donald of this city, 
two grandchildren, Deanna and Thomas, two brothers, Carl of Orleans and A.I. of 
Ionia and one sister, Mrs. Alden Rowley of Ionia.

Funeral services were in charge of Fitzjohn funeral directors where the body 
reposed until noon Wednesday and funeral services were held at 2:00 o’clock 
with Rev. H. S. Ellis officiating.  Interment was in Orleans cemetery.


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