Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Paulson, Raymond L. 1947
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Belding Banner-News, 29 May 1947

Accident Injuries Prove Fatal To Youth

His Motorcycle Collided With Car On M-44 Last Thursday Evening

Injuries which he received when his motorcycle collided with an automobile
Thursday evening, proved fatal to Raymond L. Paulson, Aged 16 years and the
eldest son of a family of eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Paulson, when
death came to the young man at the hospital at Greenville Sunday.

The boy, who was a member of the sophomore class in the Belding high school, was
riding his motorcycle, traveling east on M-44, Thursday evening when he collided
with a car driven by Mrs. Lucy Gardner, long time resident of Smyrna, who was
traveling east on M-44 and as she went to make a left-hand turn off M-44, north
onto a road a mile west of Cooks Corners.  The impact of the motorcycle and the
car was so severe that it ripped the left running board and the front fender off
the car which Mrs. Gardner was driving.  The Paulson family home is but a short
distance west of where the fatal accident took place.

The boy was rushed to the hospital at Greenville, in an unconscious condition
and was treated there for the head and internal injuries which it was found he
had received in the crash.  Very little hope was held for his recovery at any
time following the accident.

Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Paulson, four brothers Norman,
Donald, Robert and Gerald, and three sisters, Irene, Halia? and Mary, all at home.

100 high school students attended the services in a body and pallbearers chosen
from among them were Richard Ravell, Kale Lindsey, Bert Lindsey, Jack Jewell,
Martin Juhl and James McGuire.

Funeral services in charge of the Fitzjohn Funeral Home, were held Tuesday
afternoon at 1:30 and at 2 o’clock, with Rev. Paul Gutknecht officiating at Holy
Cross Lutheran church, High street.  Burial was in Otisco cemetery west of the
city.


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