Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Root, Harvey Edwin 1943
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The Belding Banner-News, Thursday, July 29, 1943


The death of Harvey Edwin Root, aged 52 years and for the past 42 years a 
resident of this city, took place on Saturday in the hospital at Carson City, 
where he had gone for an operation which was hoped would improve his health.  
Death was caused by cancer.  Mr. Root had been about as usual and had been 
seriously ill for only about 10 days prior to his death.

He was born in Ft. Wayne, Ind. On Sept. 27, 1890, and came to this city when he 
was 10 years of age.  As a boy he took up the baking trade and was employed in 
local bakeries for many years, having been employed by the late L. E. Trimble, 
Hearl Punches, Arnold Ditmar and other bakery owners.  Last November he gave up 
the baker’s trade and entered the employ of the Gibson Corporation at 
Greenville, where he worked until he was forced to give up.

Surviving are the widow, formerly Zella Arms, to whom he was married on Sept. 
29, 1912, at Ionia; two sons, James of Muskegon and Pvt. Robert Root, serving 
with the armed forces of the nation; a daughter, Winifred, at home, and one 
grandson.  Also a half-brother, Lorenzo Hill, of Bucyrus, Ohio, and his 
stepfather, John Hill, of Kalamazoo.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Ellis funeral home with Rev. 
H. S. Ellis officiating and burial was in the Belding (old) cemetery.  
Pallbearers were LeRoy Knight, Lewis Lincoln, Arnold Ditmar, Hearl Punches, 
Kenneth Luce and Peter Shindorf.


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