Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Snell, Clifford Bliss 1953
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, November 28, 1953


Clifford Bliss Snell, 62, a former Ionian, died Saturday morning, November 28 
at 12:10 o’clock in the Little Traverse Hospital at Petoskey.  Short services 
will be conducted there Monday and graveside services will be held in Ionia at 
Highland Park cemetery at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon.  

He was born in Ionia January 9, 1891, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Watson C. Snell.  
He was in the theater business here for a number of years during which he built 
the Regent theater located where Frank’s store now is, and also conducted the 
Family and Mystic theaters.  He was a linotype operator and was employed by the 
Ionia Sentinel for a time leaving there to become manager of the Regent and 
Mystic theaters about 40 years ago.

He left Ionia and moved to Petoskey about 30 years ago where he had since 
resided and where he was employed for a number of years as a linotype operator 
by the Petoskey Evening News. 

Surviving him are his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Richard LaPeer, and a 
granddaughter, Janet, all of Petoskey.

Subsequent Publication:  Monday, November 30, 1953

The body of Clifford B. Snell, former Ionian, was brought to Ionia Monday for 
graveside services in Highland Park cemetery at 3 o’clock following services at 
9 a.m. in Petoskey where he died Saturday in Little Traverse Hospital.

The services here were conducted by the Rev. Fr. Roger Bunday, rector of St. 
Johns Episcopal church.

Mr. Snell had been a resident of Petoskey since 1925 when he left Ionia where 
he was operating two motion picture theaters.  He was a member of the Elks 
lodge in Petoskey and of the Ionia Masonic lodge, and of the Petoskey 
Episcopalian church.


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