Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....REED, Paul S. 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett lib@dogsbark.comJanuary 23, 2007, 3:29 pm THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR; Newsletter from Sebewa - Volume 42, February 2007, Number 4: submitted with permission of Editor Grayden D. Slowins RECENT DEATH: Paul S. Reed, 80, husband of Shirley (Gallandt) Reed, father of Paul Jr., Scott, Christopher, James, and Clark Reed and Sally Meggs, brother of Robert Reed, Mrs. Edward Davison, and the late Thomas G. and Walter A. Reed, Jr., son of Uarda (Gorsuch) & Walter A. Reed, son of Clara (Harwood) & Thomas Hosea (Hosey) Reed, who homesteaded on 40 acres at SW 1/4 SW 1/4 Sec 7 Sebewa Township before 1891 and increased it to include NW 1/4 Sec 18 and totaling more than 220 acres and who have a baby daughter, Lennie, buried in West Sebewa Cemetery. The Harwood family settled in north Berlin Township before 1860, probably in the 1840s. Paul served in the US Navy in WWII as a hospital corpsman in the Okinawa campaign. He worked his way up to president in the family businesses, Lake Odessa Canning Co. and Reed-Johnson Cold Storage Co. They retired to Green Valley, AZ and he is buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Lake Odessa. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/r/reed1786gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb