Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....ROBERTS, LaVerne Ora 2003 ************************************************ 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.comMarch 16, 2006, 7:27 pm THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association, Volume 39 December 2003 Number 3; submitted with permission of Editor Grayden D. Slowins LaVerne Ora Roberts, 95, widower of C. Jeanette (Jean) (Wall) Roberts, father of daughters Jan Steury & the late LaVerna Jean Roberts, brother of the late Forrest & Roy Roberts, son of George & Caroline (Niethamer) Roberts. Verne worked on his father's farm & gravel business opposite Donna Drive on Woodland Road, the old Edward Snobble farm, managed the Gamble Store in Lake Odessa, worked at the Reo in Lansing during WWII, the Home Lumber Co. in Hastings, and then for most of his working years he built and remodeled homes & other buildings in the Barry, Eaton, Ionia County area. Since high school he also worked for Weed-Wortley-Baine-Pickens-Koops Funeral Home on funeral days and as ambulance driver when that was part of the service. A life long member of Woodland Zion Lutheran Church, he is buried at Lake Odessa Lakeside Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/r/roberts847gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb