Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Parks, Bernard 1963
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, February 14, 1963


Bernard Parks, 38, of 122 South Jefferson street died at 2:30 Friday morning 
at Ionia State Hospital where he was waiting transfer to Traverse City 
hospital.  Coroner Dale Kauffman said death was due to suffocation.

Mr. Parks was born in Toledo, Ohio May 31, 1924, the son of Linus and Goldie 
Koshier Parks.  He attended school at Shaftsburg in Shiawassee county and had 
lived in Ionia the past 12 years, coming here from Lansing.  September 9, 1950 
he was married at Ionia to Reva Johnson.  Mr. parks was employed as a lineman 
at Mitchell-Bentley corporation nine years.

He was affiliated with Evangelical United Brethren church and was a member of 
Ionia Moose lodge 998.  He was in United States Marine Corps during World War 
II, serving five years with Marines and later two years in United States Army.

Surviving are his wife, Reva; one son, Bernard, Jr., at home; his parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. Linus Parks of Lansing; four brothers, Richard Parks of Perry, Linus, 
Jr., of Lansing, Edwin of Bath, and Dale of Shaftsburg; four sisters, Mrs. 
June Morse, Mrs. Verlin Cook and Mrs. Barbara Gould of Lansing, and Mrs. Betsy 
Dean of Perry.

Funeral service will be conducted at Myers funeral home Saturday at 2 p.m. 
with the Rev. A. R. Kuehn officiating.  Burial will be at Balcom cemetery.



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