Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Otis, Arden L. 1934
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, June 8, 1934
Arden Otis, born in Peoria, Ill., in 1873, died at the home of his sister, 
Mrs. Will Densmore, in Saranac, Thursday evening at 7:15, after a long 
illness.  He was operated on two years ago and had never regained his health.  
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Otis, and came to Ionia county when three 
years old.  

At the age of 15 he began clerking for Captain E. P. Gifford in a grocery 
store, and worked there four years, then became a clerk in Charles Huhn’s dry-
goods and grocery department store where he worked for eight years.  He later 
bought the corner two stores with Levi Vaughn where they operated a grocery 
store, later Vaughn’s interest was transferred to Dale Jepson and then to Lee 
Otis.  Arden Otis operated the store until three years ago.  Not only was he 
interested in his own store, but he was connected with a bakery and an 
implement store in Saranac, and had always been active in all activities for 
improvement of the village.  

He never married.  He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Will Densmore, and Mrs. Mary 
Crane, of Lansing, and one brother, Amos Otis, of Saranac.  He was a member of 
the Odd Fellow lodge.

Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home of his 
sister, Mrs. Will Densmore.  Rev. E. H. Humphreys will conduct the service.  
Burial at the Saranac cemetery.


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