Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Pickens, Clare C. November 20, 1981
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Hasting's Reminder-Nov. 24, 1981

Clare C. Pickens
Lake Odessa - 67, of 762 6th Ave., died Friday November 20, 1981 at Pennock,
Hospital.

Born April 12, 1914 in Sunfield Township, son of Orvin and Luna (Switzer) Pickens.

Attended Lake Odessa school, graduated Lake Odessa High School.

Attended Grand Rapids Community College & Cinn. College of Mortuary Science.

He married Vinton Vis in Grand Rapids in 1938. She died in 1963.  He then married
Marie Morse June 27, 1965.

He was employed by the Greenhoe Funeral Home for 14 years at Grand Rapids.
He purchased the Wortley-Baine Funeral Home in Lake Odessa, Jan. 1, 1946 and the
Wing Funeral home in Woodland in 1965. The Beattie Funeral Home in Clarksville retiring
in 1975, due to ill health.

He was member of the central United Methodist Church in Lake Odessa, The Lake Odessa
Fair Board for 14 years. Was Grand Marshall of Lake Odessa Fair in 1981, Chairman
for Salvation Army, Lake Odessa Masonic Lodge, Odd Fellows of Lake Odessa & the Lake 
Odessa Lions Club.

Survived by wife, two sons, two daughters, one sister & ten grandchildren.
Funeral services were Monday November 23 at 1:30 p.m for Pickens-Koops Funeral
Chapel. Burial at Lakeside Cemetery with Rev. Stephen Keller officiating.


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