Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Page, R. Lee 1928
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Ionia County News – Thursday, 10 May 1928

“R. L. PAGE DIES HERE; WAS ILL BUT ONE WEEK”
“Prominent Business Man Succumbs Early Friday Morning”
“WAS PIONEER IN BUSINESS WORLD”
“With Father Was One Of City’s First Bankers”

R. Lee Page, one of Ionia’s most prominent citizens and a man whose 
contributions to the business prosperity of this city are written large in the 
annals of the city’s history, died at 4 a.m. Thursday following an illness of 
one week from bronchial pneumonia.

Mr. Page, and his father, W. C. Page, played an important part in the early 
business development of the city and of its financial growth having been 
actively (unreadable) with the banking business and other interest for many 
years.

He was born February 2, 1866 in the residence which stood where the Pere 
Marquette railroad station now stands.  When about five years of age the 
family moved to the present residence at 340 East Main Street.

Mr. Page obtained his early education in the public schools here and, after 
his graduation from high school attended the University of Detroit.  Returning 
to Ionia, he entered business with his father in the W. C. Page Company, coal 
dealers, this firm continuing to the present time.  He also was associated 
with his father in the conducting of one of the original banking institutions 
in the city.

For many years the Page and Wilson later the Page and Baldie Bank, was well 
and favorably known throughout the county.  It was the predecessor of the old 
Webber Brothers Bank, the Second National Bank and what now is the National 
Bank of Ionia.  He also was at one time connected with the shoe business here 
as a member of the firm of Page and Wisner and has had much to do with the 
real estate development of the city and extensive property holdings here.

He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. C. A. Ross, of Jefferson 
Barracks, St. Louis Mo, and his son, R. L. Page, Jr.

Funeral arrangements had not been made early Thursday afternoon pending 
arrival of Mrs. Ross from Missouri.



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