Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....SANDBORN, Melborn E. July 4, 2007 ************************************************ 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.comSeptember 17, 2007, 5:31 pm THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Volume 43, October 2007, Number 2; Submitted with written permission of current editor Grayden D. Slowins RECENT DEATH: Melborn E. Sandborn, 93, husband of Fannie Margaret (Rogers) Sandborn, the daughter of Roy & Gertrude (Coon) Rogers, father of John and Luke Sandborn, Sharon Zarka and Cynthia Hefty, brother of the late Herbert, Columbus, Jacob, Riley, Lawrence, Allen and Raymond Sandborn and Vera Krausz, son of Elma Winifred (Luscher) & Lawrence (Lon) Watson Sandborn, son of Sara Jane (Gibbs) & Columbus Sandborn, son of Betsey Ann (Ingrahm) & Edward Sandborn. Elma was the daughter of Minnie C. (Erdman) and Jacob Luscher, son of Anna (Huntzinger) & Jacob Luscher Sr., son of Anna (Faes) & Hans Jakob Luesher of Aargau, Switzerland. Melborn was born October 25, 1913, in Orange Township on Keefer Highway, where his brother Jake later farmed, died July 4, 2007, in Danby Township on the Musgrove Hwy end of their farm on Keefer Hwy. He served for 30 years on the Sebewa High School Board, 4 years on the Ionia County Intermediate School Board, 15 years on the Ionia Soil Conservation District Board, 20 years on the Sunfield Elevator Board, and 26 years on the Maynard Allen Bank Board. He farmed with his son Luke and operated Sandborn International Farm Equipment Co. with his son John. He is buried in Danby Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/sandborn2166gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb