Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Scheer, Peter 1939 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net June 24, 2013, 3:14 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, July 27, 1939 Peter Scheer died shortly after 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon at his home on North Jefferson street following an illness of about a year. He had been an employee of the State Savings bank as janitor for three years and was also janitor of the Webber block. He had been absent from his duties for the past six months. Subsequent Publication: Friday, July 28, 1939 Funeral services for Peter Scheer, 51, who died at his home on North Jefferson street Thursday afternoon will be held from the home at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and from the St. John’s Evangelical church of which he was a member, at 3 p.m. Rev. R. A. Rook, pastor of the church, will officiate at the rites. Interment will be in the family lot in Highland park. Peter Scheer was born August 23, 1887 in Hungary, coming to the United States when he was 19 years old. He settled first in New Brunswick, New Jersey, then came to Ionia in 1913, residing here since then. He was employed at the Hayes plant in Ionia, an automobile factory in Lansing, and for the past three years was an employee of the State bank and janitor for the Webber block. He had been in ill health for over a year. Survivors are his wife, Elizabeth, 52, a daughter in Flint, four stepsons, Peter Schneider of Saginaw, John, Frank and William of Ionia, his mother, Mrs. Eva Waltner, three brothers and three sisters, all living in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mrs. Waltner, 78, will be in Ionia for the funeral services, making the trip by motor to Ionia for the second time in four weeks. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/scheer21090nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb