Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rier, George 1930
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, February 10, 1930

George Rier, 68, died at his home on West Washington street, Sunday afternoon 
at 5 o’clock after a five-day illness.  The funeral services will be held from 
the Bradley funeral home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. Paul L. 
Stewart in charge.  The interment will take place in the family lot in the 
Saranac cemetery.

Mr. Rier was a native of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he lived until eight 
years of age.  At this age he accompanied his parents, a brother, and two 
sisters to Ionia county, his mother dying soon after the family arrived here.  
He went in to upper Michigan when about 25 years of age; where he spent five 
years in the Rockland copper mines.

October 6, 1909 he was united in marriage to Miss Florence Sistem, who with 
the three daughters, Gladys, Lucille and Beatrice May survive him.  He also 
leaves a brother, John Rier, of Ronald.  A sister, Mrs. J. R. Walker died 
about a year ago.

In 1916 Mr. Rier moved his family to a little farm west of Prairie Creek, 
where they lived until last…(reminder is missing).


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