Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sly, William S. 1941
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 14 Apr 1941

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. from the home on
West Main Street for William S. Sly, 78 year old Ionia resident who died at his
home Saturday afternoon, April 12.  Rev. C.A. Brady will officiate and interment
will be at Highland Park cemetery.

He was born at Prince Edward Island, Canada, May 31, 1862, and came to Michigan
in 1880.  He took up farming and later gave it up and moved to Ionia where he
opened a grocery store with Hiram Rinker where Johnson’s Food Market is now
located.  Several years later he organized and operated the Ionia general
delivery system with Herbert Crysler which they sold after a few years.  Sly
built the grocery store at the corner of Jefferson and Lincoln streets and
operated the store there for some time before selling out to R. Johnson.  He was
employed as a guard at the Michigan state reformatory for 8 years and after that
he retired from active work.  Mrs. Sly died in December 1937.

Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. C. Soderstrum of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Alice
Decatur of Hudsonville and Mrs. Frankie Speir of California; and one brother,
E.E. Slye, of Schoolcraft.


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