Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ovenshire, Max M. 1970
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 16 Mar 1970

Rev. Max M. Ovenshire, 57, 719 North Wilson, Hastings, clergyman for the United 
Brethren church in Lake Odessa and Woodland area, died Sunday morning in 
Sunshine hospital in Grand Rapids where he had been admitted the day before.  
He had been in ill health several months.

Born in Eaton county December 15, 1912, he was a son of Mark and Cecelia 
Ovenshire, and attended Charlotte high school.  He graduated from Huntington 
Indiana college in 1946 after being married to the former Betty Morris of 
Charlotte, December 31, 1939.  Ordained as a United Brethren minister, Rev. 
Ovenshire served in several parishes including Freeport, Pleasant Valley, 
Woodland, and Brown’s Corners near Clare, where he retired due to ill health.

Surviving besides his wife Betty, is one daughter, Mrs. John Willette of Lake 
Odessa, two sons, Darrell of Detroit and James of Lansing; three grandchildren; 
two sisters, Mrs. Gladys Jones of Battle Creek and Mrs. Mildred Backofen of 
Charlotte; and two brothers, Ormel of Norwalk, Calif., and Clifford of Battle 
Creek.  Also surviving is a foster father, Vern Day of Charlotte.  

The body is at Pickens funeral chapel in Lake Odessa until Wednesday morning 
when it will be transferred to United Brethren church in Charlotte where 
funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. March 18, the Rev. Isaac Osgood 
officiating.  

A memorial fund has been established by the family for the Camp of Living 
Waters at Baldwin and contributions may be left at Pickens funeral chapel.  
Burial will be in Maple Hill cemetery in Charlotte.


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