Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Shindorf, Raymond 1942
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Belding Banner-News, 10 Dec 1942

Grattan Youth Died Following Accident

Boy on Bicycle Was Struck By Truck on M-44 Friday Evening.

Raymond Shindorf, the 13-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shindorf, former
residents of this city, who are now living a short distance west and south of
the village of Grattan, was fatally injured when he was struck, while riding his
bicycle just west of Grattan Friday evening, by a light truck, driven by Mrs.
Laurette VanRaalte of Holland, whose husband, John, was riding with her in the
truck at the time of the accident.

The boy had been into the village to have the tires on his bicycle properly
inflated and was returning home when the truck struck him.  State police who
investigated stated that the boy was riding west and on the south side of state
highway M-44 and that the truck was coming toward the east and on the same side
of the road.  They reported that the truck was stopped within a few yards of
where the boy on the bicycle was struck and that apparently the truck was being
driven at a moderate speed.

Following the accident the youth was rushed to St. Mary’s hospital at Grand
Rapids where he passed away at 3:35 Saturday morning from the injuries received
in the accident.  The body was brought to this city by Bruce G. Fales, who was
in charge of funeral arrangements.

Surviving are the parents, eight sisters: Eleanor of Detroit, Mrs. Lester
Bradley of this city, Noema of Battle Creek and Patricia, Helen, Ellen,
Charlotte and Ethel Mae, at home, and two brothers LaVerne and James, also at home.

Funeral services were held at St. Joseph’s Catholic church in this city
Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock with Rev. Fr. Ralph J. Kelly officiating and
burial was in the Catholic cemetery here.


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