Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rusnell, Merle E. July 14, 1973
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Sentinel-Standard - Monday, July 16, 1973

Funeral services for Merle E. Rusnell, 69, will be Tuesday at 2 pm at Leddick 
funeral home. Rev. Dale Carrick of Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter 
Day Saints of Vestaburg will officiate and interment will be at East Plains 
cemetery. 

Mr. Rusnell, a retired masonry contractor, died Friday evening at his residence 
at 122 North Depot of an apparent heart attack.

Fifteen years ago in 1958, Rusnell caught his arm in a plaster mixing machine 
while working at Ionia County Memorial hospital addition and his heart stopped 
beating. He was moved into the hospital where a doctor opened his chest and 
massaged his heart which began to beat again. He recovered from the accident to 
live 15 additional years.

Born in Elmira, November 29, 1904, he was the son of Joseph and Mary Butler 
Rusnell. He attended high school in Antrim after which he served his 
apprenticeship  as a brick layer and was self employed in the trade for several 
years prior to World War II.

During the war he worked at Fisher Body in Lansing after which he returned to 
his former trade. He was  self employed and also worked for several local 
contractors in the Ionia area. He was a member of local one Bricklayers Union 
and former member of the Moose lodge. 

April 2, 1925, he was married to Mary Alice Melvin of Pewamo and she died in 
1934. He later married Harriett Custer, October 30, 1935 and she survives.

He also leaves five sons, Dale of Fairbanks, Alaska, Karl, Kenneth and Ban, all 
of Ionia and Gerald of Pinckney; three daughters, Mrs. Artis Coe and Mrs. Arla 
Lesky of Ionia, Mrs. Avis White of Belleville; 23 grandchildren; three great-
grandchildren; two brothers, Ivan of Pontiac and Loren of Vestaburg; two 
sisters, Mrs. Verna Cameron of Baldwin and Mrs. Connie Good of Lansing. 

Family will be at the funeral home Monday from 7 to 9 pm. 

Additional Comments:
            Ionia Sentinel-Standard - Saturday, July 14, 1973

Merle E. Rusnell, 69, died Friday evening of an apparent heart attack at the 
Plaza Hotel, where he had resided the past six years.

Funeral services are incomplete, and will be announced later by Leddick funeral 
home. 

Funeral: Tuesday, 17 July, 1973
E. Plains cemetery

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