Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stark, Henry Lee 1937
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, February 18, 1937

Funeral services for Henry Lee Stark, 54, life-long Easton township farmer who 
was found dead Sunday morning after shooting himself, were held Wednesday 
afternoon from the residence one mile east of the Saranac and M-21 road 
intersection.  Burial was in the Saranac cemetery.

Coroner Harry Myers, who was called to investigate, said that Stark had shot 
himself with a 12-gauge shotgun.  Friends of the family stated that the man 
had been in ill health for nearly 10 years and it is believed that worry had 
caused him to commit the act.

Stark’s wife said that her husband did he usual farm chores Sunday morning and 
had returned to the farm home where he played with their 10-months-old child.  
He left the house shortly and Mrs. Stark said she heard a report form a gun.  
At first believing it was a car that had backfired, upon investigating she 
found her husband lying on the garage floor.  With the aid of a passing 
motorist Mrs. Stark carried her husband into the house.  He was dead.

Surviving besides the wife are three daughters, Rosalie, three, Caroline, 
five, and Sarah, 10 months, and two step-daughters, Evelyn, 10, and Clara, 
15.  A brother, Orin, of Saranac, and two sisters, Mrs. Rose Maxwell, Keene 
township and Mrs. Minnie Gillette of Ionia township, also survive.


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