Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rising, Blake W. 1974 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net July 12, 2011, 5:09 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 4 Apr 1974 Blake W. Rising, formerly of Woodland, died Monday in Barry county medical facility in Hastings where he had been a patient for the past five years. Born September 13, 1885, in Barry county he was a son of Elmer and Cora Hatton Rising and retired form farming in 1960 as a lifelong resident of the Woodland area. He was a member of Woodland Zion Lutheran church On April 23, 1923, he married Clara Neithamer at Woodland. Survivors include his wife, a son, Gene of Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Island, three grandsons, and a sister, Mrs. Clare Durkee of Hastings. The body is at Pickens-Koops funeral chapel in Lake Odessa where services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Rev. Randall Metz of Zion Lutheran church officiating. Burial is in Lakeside cemetery, Lake Odessa. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/r/rising14576nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb