Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Reed, Walter 1951
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, June 7, 1951


A native of Orleans and spending his entire life there, Walter Reed passed away 
Saturday at Berry Convalescent home in Ionia where he had been cared for during 
his illness.  He had been in ill health for about two years.

The son of William and Hannah Reed, he was born July 27, 1870, on a farm west 
of Orleans and lived there with his parents until their death and then lived 
there alone until his health failed.

He was well known as a trapper and hunter.  Well acquainted with the animal 
life of the surrounding country, he made his living by the sale of furs.  He 
was a born naturalist, knew the haunts and ways of every wild thing of the 
wood.  He had fished in every stream and lake contiguous to Orleans.  Many an 
Orleans boy in years past had their first lessons in fishing and hunting on 
trips with him and they were in good company as he neither smoked, drank or 
used profane language.

He was an only child and his only survivors are cousins, John Reed, Mrs. Leon 
Nummer, Mrs. William Ransom and Mrs. Henry Conner, all of Ionia.

Funeral services were held Monday at two o’clock at Fales-Huffman funeral 
chapel with Rev. H. B. Johnson officiating.  Burial was in Orleans cemetery.  
Pallbearers were Jerry Spaulding, Ernest Leach, Carl Olmstead, Ed. Ostrom, 
Arthur Hoyt and Clair Fero.


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