Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Root, William S. (Sr.) (Mr.) November 13, 1969
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Lake Odessa Wave - November 20, 1969
           SERVICES HELD FOR WILLIAM S. ROOT
   William S. Root, 81, passed away Thursday at the Provincial House at Hastings
where he had been a 
resident since April.  Prior to then he was at the Barry County Medical Facility
several months.
   Born Sept. 29, 1883, in Odessa Township, he as the son of Austin and Ada (Backum)
Root and attended the 
Beard Rural School.  He married Cora Coon of Barryton Feb. 12, 1918, and was a
custom thresher and farmer 
in the Lake Odessa area until he retired in 1945 and moved to Hastings.
   Surviving are three sons, William Jr., and Alfred of rural Hastings and Charles
of rural Nashville; four 
daughters, Mrs. Werlin (Zada) Love of Dafter, Upper Peninsula; Mrs. Donald (Ada)
Kintz of Grand Rapids, Mrs. 
Ramond (Marie) Bennett of Temperance and Mrs. Elton (Mae) Bennett of Farmington; 21
grandchildren, seven 
great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Lennie Martin of Ionia.
   Mrs. Root passed away Sept. 26, 1968.
   Funeral services were held at 1:30 Saturday at the Leonard Funeral Home at
Hastings.
   Harry Bridgeeman of the Jehovah's Wilnesses officiated, with burial in Lakeside
Cemetery at Lake Odessa.

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