Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Plant, Claude M. 1956
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The Portland Review & Observer, Thursday, January 1, 1957

Claude M. Plant, 70, passed away Christmas Day at a Lansing hospital.  He had 
lived at 625 Academy st. for 43 years and had been a Portland resident since a 
young man.

Surviving are the wife, Eda; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Alexander of Portland; 
and a sister, Mrs. Pearl Campbell of Lansing.

Funeral services were held Monday morning at St. Patrick’s Church, the Rev. 
Fr. Louis Flohe officiating, and burial was in Portland cemetery.  The Rosary 
was recited at Neller Funeral Home Sunday evening.

Mr. Plant was president of the Grand River Conservation club, a charter member 
of Portland Country Club, and formerly had operated a grocery and meat 
business here for 35 years.  He was widely known for his connection with 
baseball, having successfully managed local independent teams for a number of 
years, and he also was a standout player in his younger days.

Mr. Plant came here in his ‘teens from Lake Odessa, and worked in the Ramsey-
Alton factory and played first base with the old Portland Independents.  He 
went into meat marked business in a building on east side of Kent st. that 
stood where J & J store is now located.  After building was damaged by fire he 
moved across street to where Jean’s Recreation is located and continued there 
until retiring from the market.

At one time he had contract for disposal of Lansing’s garbage, with late O.S. 
Rice, and after termination of that activity, farmed the land so used, along 
Grand river in Danby township.  He also operated his farm east of Frost 
corners.

Pall bearers were Dan Watson, Fred J. Mauren, Leo Lehman, Severin Jean, 
William Young and Jay Clark.


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