Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Wallace 1932
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, March 17, 1932

A double funeral service was held Sunday afternoon for Mr. and Mrs. Wallace 
Smith, whose deaths occurred within 48 hours at their home in Lyons.  Mrs. 
Smith died last Wednesday after an illness of several weeks’ duration. Mr. 
Smith survived his mate until Friday morning when he succumbed from a 
complication of diseases.

Mr. Smith was 83 years of age and was the last Civil War veteran living in 
Lyons.  He was a native of New York state and enlisted there in 1864, serving 
to the end of the war as a member of Battery D, Third Regiment.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith are survived by three children, Mrs. Lyle Losey, Ionia; 
Mrs. Harry Baldwin, and Mrs. Earl Keefer, Lyons.

The funeral services were held from the Boynton Chapel and interment was in 
Palo cemetery, where military honors were accorded by a bugler and firing 
squad from Company H., National Guard.  The bugler was Gordon Benedict and the 
firing squad which fired the volley over the flag draped casket was composed 
of Emmet Roche, Gerald Comer, Richard Bennett, William Simons, Leo Blow and 
Theodore Veasy.


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