Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Snavely, Duane Eldon February 18, 2019
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Lakewood News- Feb. 23, 2019

DUANE ELDOBN SNAVELY
Ionia, MI - Duane Eldon Snavely, age 96, formerly of Freeport passed away on 
February 18, 2019.

He was born on December 8, 1922, the youngest child of Ira Calvert and 
Virginia may Wine Snavely near Wauneta, NE. His father was a minister in the 
church of The Brethren, and the family lived in Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, 
Indiana, and Michigan. Duane graduated from Royerton High School, (IN) in 
1940.

He had an agricultural exemption to the draft and farmed during the wars. He 
moved with his parents to a farm near Kalamo and later to their farm on Irish 
road in Sunfield Township in 1948. He married Joyce Elaine Hoover on October 
4, 1952; Elaine Louise was born in 1954 and Cheryl Diane in 1958.

Duane still loved farming, but their dairy herd was lost to Bang's disease 
and Duane went to work at E. W. Bliss in Hastings building machine presses 
for 25 years. Duane and Joyce moved to Carlton Center in 1988 and lived there 
until they moved to Green Acres near Ionia last spring. After retirement, he 
worked summers at the cemeteries of Sunfild Township for several years.

He enjoyed gardening, watching the Detroit Tigers, Hartzler bus trips, 
Scrabble and word search puzzles, talking to people, playing piano for the 
Sunfield Church of the Brethren, and singing the old hymns of this childhood.

Duane was preceded in death by his parents; siblings, Dale, Bernice (Galen) 
Barkdoll, Greta Gladys (Carl) Welch, and Lyle (Christeen).

He is survived by  Joyce, his wife of 66 years; daughters, Elaine (Dan) 
Wells, and Cheryl (Tim) Allen; granddaughters, Elizabeth (Darrel) DuBois and 
Katherine (Andrew) Haff, as well as many nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held at 10 a.,. Tuesday, Feb. 26 2019 one hour prior to 
the service at 11 a.m. at the Hope church of the Brethren, 14275 92nd St. 
Freeport.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Heifer 
International, https://fundraise,heifer.org/DuaneSnavely or 1 World Avenue, 
Little Rock, AR 72202. His family has supported Heifer International since 
its beginnings, including helping to send heifers to Europe after WWII. 


Please visit a special page created fro Duane to leave a condolence for the 
family; www.RosierFuneralHome.com  The family has entrusted the arrangements 
tot he Independent Family Owned Funeral Home in Sunfield; Rosier Funeral 
Home.


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