Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Elmer C. 1985 ************************************************ 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 August 9, 2012, 3:22 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, May 1, 1985 Elmer C. Smith, 80, of 422 Kent Street, Portland died Tuesday. He was born Oct. 30, 1904, in Clinton County, the son of Frank and Lucella Rice Smith. He was retired from TRW, Portland, where he worked as a tool grinder. He was a member of the Portland United Methodist Church and Masonic Lodge No. 31, F. & A. M. Surviving are his wife, Muriel; a son, Richard E. of Middleville; two daughters, Mrs. Richard (Carolyn) Smith of Portland and Mary Lou Millen of Lansing; nine grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and one sister, Bessie Blackman of Dunedin, Fla. Masonic services will be conducted at Neller Funeral Home at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Funeral services will be at Neller Funeral Home Friday at 1 p.m., with the Rev. Dow Chamber of the Portland United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Portland Cemetery, with Harold Gates, Bert Denny, Russell Curtis, Emmet Watson, Robert Higbee and William Ingram serving as pallbearers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/smith18627nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb