Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stebbins, Perry H. 1940
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Tuesday, September 10, 1940

Perry H. Stebbins, president of the Stebbins Ice Cream company, died at his 
home in Easton township Monday evening about 8 o’clock.  He had been ill for 
some time and had suffered a stroke last March.

Born in Eaton township on October 2, 1874, he was the son of George and 
Eleanor Hardenburg Stebbins.  He grew up on his parents home farm and received 
his education in the public schools and the high school at Ionia.  He remained 
on the farm until his marriage on December 2, 1896 to Mae E. Conner, also of 
Easton, the daughter of Thomas E. and Jane Pike Conner.  After his marriage he 
bought fifty acres in section 18 of Easton township and farmed there for three 
years.  He then sold out and returned to the old Stebbins homestead where he 
has since resided, keeping the place under good improvement.  He purchased the 
place about thirty years ago.  He has one hundred and forty acres, two good 
dwellings, large barns and other buildings.  He was a republican and has 
served as justice of the peace for a short time and from 1901 to 1905 was 
township clerk.  In the spring of 1915 he was again elected township clerk.  
He was a member of the Methodist church, the Elks lodge, and Gleaners and the 
Modern Woodmen.

The ice cream company at Saranac was started up in 1922 by Mr. Stebbins and 
his son Elvon, and a cousin, Jack Hillis, now of Detroit.  The company grew 
out of a milk route which Mr. Stebbins and Elvon had at the time Elvon was 
still a student in school.  The other son, Maurice, also joined his father and 
brother after his graduation from high school.  Maurice and Elvon are vice-
presidents of the company at the present time.  It became a corporation in 
1929.  The company supplies ice cream to a great many western and central 
Michigan outlets.

Surviving are his wife, Mae; two sons, Elvon of Ionia and Maurice at home; two 
grandchildren, Leslie, 18, and Marilyn, 6, and one sister, Mrs. Lyda E. Harris.

Funeral services will be conducted from the residence Thursday afternoon at 
1:30 and at the Easton Community church at 2 o’clock.  Interment will be held 
at the Easton cemetery.


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