Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Patrick, Fred R. March 20, 1936
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The Ionia Daily, Sentinel-Standard, Monday, March 23, 1936
Funeral services for Fred R. Patrick, 41, World war veteran, who died Friday 
afternoon were held from the Berlin township home Monday at 10:30 o’clock with 
Rev. John Youngs of Ionia officiating.  Pallbearers were relatives and 
included Arthur Rumbaugh, William Carlyle, Sam Lory, Gerald Robinson, Sidney 
Calkins and Percy Colley.  The casket was draped with the American flag.  
Interment was at the family lot at Balcom cemetery.  Flowers were in charge of 
Miss Ardis Rumbaugh, Lansing, and W. E. Armstead, of Cadillac.

Friends and relatives from away were Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Lory, and daughter, 
Gary, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Carlyle, Plainwell; Mr. and Mrs. William 
Harwood, Saranac; Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Keefer, of Lyons; Mr. and Mrs. Albert 
Peterson, Traverse City; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Galloway, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Galloway, 
and Miss Minnie Galloway of Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith of Stanton, and 
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Robinson, Ronald.

Mr. Patrick was one of the original members of Company D, 126th infantry, 32nd 
division of the U.S. army during the World war, and saw two and one-half years 
of service in France.  He enlisted in the local national guard unit when war 
broke out in Europe in 1914, and served on the Mexican border.  He was 
mustered into the service of his country while in Texas, and was immediately 
sent to France with the first American troops.  He was born on the farm in 
Berlin township, where he died, and was a graduate of the Ionia high school.



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