Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Potter, Neil 1965
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 14, 22 & 28 Dec 1965

Marine From Lyons Killed In Viet Nom

A 21-year old Marine from Lyons, married and the father of two children has been
killed in Viet Nam.  Members of the family of Neil Potter have been notified he
was killed Sunday.  He is the son of Mrs. June Potter and the late Robert Potter
and was born in Wixom, September 26, 1944.  He moved to Evart in 1953 and to
Lyons in 1958.  

Following his graduation from high school in Lyons in 1962 he married Yvonne
Smejkal August 27 the same year.  September 1, 1962 he enlisted in the United
States Marine Corps.  He took his training at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and went
to Viet Nam in May 1965.  His brother, George, has been in Viet Nam 13 months.

Surviving besides his wife, Yvonne, our two children, Lisa Potter, 2 ½, and
Melissa Sue, seven months; his mother, Mrs. June Potter; four sisters, Mrs.
Shirley McClellan of Walled Lake, Mrs. Jennie Brast of Milford, Mrs. June
Chipman of Evart, and Mrs. Linda Thomas of Ionia; six brothers, Robert and Jack
of Wixom, Edward of Commerce, Kenneth of Walled Lake, George of U.S. Marines,
and Paul of Union Lake.

The body is expected to arrive within 10 days or two weeks.

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Funeral service for Neil Potter, 21, who was killed at December 12 in Viet Nom,
will be held at Shaw-Rivett-Hull funeral home in Lyons Friday at 2 p.m.  The
body will arrive at the funeral home Wednesday night.  Military honors will be
by the Marine reserve unit from Lansing and interment at Muir cemetery.

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Shaw-Rivett-Hull funeral home was filled and a number could not get in for the
funeral services of Cpl. Neil Potter of the U.S. Marines, December 24 at 2 p.m.
 The Rev. Fr. Paul Johnson of SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church of Ionia
officiated.

Bearers were Harry Rogers, Jr., Gaylord Ferris, David and Dwight Barclay, George
Hopkins, Dale Wood, Dennis Chambers and Clare Valentine.  Flower bearers were
members of the senior class of 1962 of Lyons-Muir Community school of which Neil
was a member.  Honorary bearers were members of Company C.1st Battalion of the
4th Marine Division Reserve Unit of Lansing.  Also assisting as honorary escorts
was Gerard Horrocks American Legion of Ionia.  Burial was in Oakwood cemetery,
Muir.


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