Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stevens, Leo E. 1988 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net November 20, 2010, 3:34 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 16 Nov 1988 Leo E. Stevens, 79, of Henderson and formerly of Ionia, died Nov. 14 at Blodgett Memorial Medical Center in grand Rapids. He was born Jan. 9, 1909, in Clinton County, the son of Edwin and Ellen (Kane) Stevens. He was a retired mechanic, and lived most of his life in Ionia and Texas. He married Arilla Bennett in Ionia Sept. 28, 1936. Surviving are his wife Arilla of Henderson; two daughters, Sonja Crawford of Lyons and Juanita Blaisdell of Flushing; three sons, Victor of Pinconning, Ernest of Chapin, and Eric of Elsie; 13 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one sister, Dora Smith of Pottsboro, Texas, and one brother, Victor Shamp, also of Pottsboro. One son preceded him in death. Funeral services will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Carter Funeral Home in Elsie, the Rev. James P. James officiating. Burial will be in the Ford Cemetery in Gratiot County. Visitation will be today from 2 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/stevens9851nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb