Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Parks, Alonzo 1941
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, September 25, 1941
Alonzo Parks, son of George C. and Mary A. Parks was born in Pewamo, Michigan 
July 8, 1895.  He was one of six brothers and five sisters.  His mother passed 
away 19 years ago and his father three years ago.  One brother and three 
sisters survive.  

Alonzo resided inNew York state two years and was a resident of this community 
for many years.  He was in service in the Untied States army for 16 months 
during the first World War and was a member of the Walter T. Roach Post No. 
182 of the American Legion in Hubbardston.  He was also a member of the K of 
P. Lodge and Eagles lodge in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where his last years were 
spent, and of the Firemen’s Local No. 279 and Firefighters Association of 
Cheyenne.  For the past four years he has been in failing health and died in 
the Veteran’s hospital in Cheyenne, Thursday morning, September 18.

Funeral services were held from the Methodist church in Hubbardston, Monday 
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Rev. W. Dale Robinson officiated.

Lon Parks, son of the late George Parks, passed away at a Cheyenne hospital 
late last week.  The body was brought here for burial arriving Sunday 
afternoon and taken to the home of his sister, Mrs. Arbrustmacher at Carson 
City.  At 2:30 p.m. Monday the funeral services were held at the Hubbardston 
Methodist church and burial in the family lot at East Plains cemetery.  Burial 
services were under the auspices of the American Legion.

He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Charlotte Bates of Cheyenne, Wyoming; 
Mrs. Eleanor Finn of Lansing, Mrs. Emily Armbrustmacher, Carson City; one 
brother, Ernest, Carson City; and his step-mother, Mrs. George Parks, Lansing.

Mr. Parks was a member of the Cheyenne Fire Department for several years.  For 
the last year and a half he had been in hill health during that time he had 
several operations, death resulting from one of them.

Three years ago at this time Mr. Parks spent several weeks here with his 
father who was very ill.  He had returned to Cheyenne before his father’s 
death but came back for the funeral.  That visit will be remembered by all of 
his old friends.


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