Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stebbins, Allen E. 1941
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 25 Jan 1941

Death Calls Former Lieutenant Governor A. E. Stebbins Saturday

Allen E. Stebbins, 68, former Ionia mayor and lieutenant governor of Michigan,
died at noon Saturday in the Butterworth hospital where he had been taken only
five days before for a physical check-up following a serious illness of a heart
ailment.  Stricken with a heart attack last spring and then again as he cast his
last straight Democratic ballot on November 5, at the general election, he
regained strength for a time.  During the past week he had been feeling well but
on entry to the Grand Rapids hospital he collapsed and continued to fail.  On
Friday his condition grew critical and he was given to blood transfusions by
members of his family.

Virtually unknown in the political world Mr. Stebbins attained statewide
prominence in the 1932 general election when he was elected democratic
lieutenant-governor of Michigan while still mayor of Ionia.  He was elected
mayor in 1931 and resigned when elected to state office under Gov. William
Comstock.

Mr. Stebbins was elected mayor of Ionia in the spring of 1931 for a two-year
term.  In 1932 he was nominated by the Democratic state convention as his
party’s candidate for lieutenant-governor and in November of that year was
elected to that office, where he served during the 1933-1934 period.

In 1928 he was elected to a full term as a trustee of the Ionia city board of
education.  While a resident of Sheridan he was elected to the school board and
appointed in 1913 by President Woodrow Wilson postmaster of Sheridan, acting
until his resignation in 1919.

Born in Easton township December 9, 1873, the son of Albert and Emeline
Stebbins, Mr. Stebbins attended the Dexter district school and then attended
Saranac high school.  For several years he maintained his Easton township farm
and then completed a short course of embalming.  In 1904 he moved to Sheridan
where he established a funeral home.  He continued in Sheridan until1921 when he
opened a funeral home in Ionia where he has since lived.

On December 9, 1894 he was married to Myrtle Ellison of Keene township.

Funeral services were not completed late Saturday.

Surviving besides Mrs. Stebbins are seven children.  They are Mrs. Blanche
Monningh, of Kalamazoo; Adalbert L., of Sheridan; Hyland of Lansing, Gerald,
Leeland, and Max J., all of Ionia, and Melbourne of Grand Rapids.


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