Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ranger, Howard A. 1924
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, December 25, 1924


Howard A. Ranger, retired merchant and Lyons’ most prominent and highly 
respected citizen, died Saturday evening, following an illness of many weeks.  
He was 73 years old and one of the pioneers of this section.

The funeral was held on Tuesday afternoon with Rev. E. O. Mather, pastor of 
the Lyons Methodist church, in charge.  Interment was made at Belding 
temporarily, until the new mausoleum is completed at Ionia.

When but a boy Mr. Ranger learned to rely upon himself and this fact has had 
much to do in shaping his subsequent career, yet indefatigable industry has 
perhaps been the basis of his success.  He was born on September 6, 1851, in 
Litchfield, Medina county, Ohio.  He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ranger, 
both parents born and reared in England.  They came to America in 1847 and 
settled at Litchfield, Ohio.  Henry Litchfield was a man of means and engaged 
in various business enterprises.  He came to Ionia county with his son, Howard 
A., who was at that time six years old, and started a shoemaking shop, when 
shoes were all made to order.  

Mr. Ranger received his education in the public schools of Lyons. He learned 
the iron moulder’s trade in Lyons and Grand Rapids.  He was janitor at the 
court house in Ionia for one year and about 1879 he purchased a general store 
at Lyons, which his deceased brother had owned.  He continued to conduct the 
business for a period of 17 years, enjoying a large trade, in the meantime 
buying two farms, one of eighty acres inside the city limits of Lyons, and the 
other of eighty acres just west of Lyons.  He had been very successful in a 
business way.  Politically, he was a Republication and always active in his 
party.

He was married on November 11, 1874 to Marion McCloud, who was born in Ionia, 
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George McCloud.  Two sons and a daughter 
survive.  Walter married Belle Dilly; Jessie is the wife of Fred Shorts, who 
live in Kent county; Carl is a dentist at Ithaca.

Mr. Ranger was a member of Lyons lodge No. 37, Free and accepted Masons, and 
also of the Lyons Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons.


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