Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stocum, William Burriss 1956 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mransom311@gmail.com August 25, 2014, 1:28 pm The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, August 27, 1956 William Burriss Stocum, 87, of Portland, died early Monday morning, August 27 at the Meitler convalescent home in Portland. He was born December 31, 1868 in Orange township, Ionia county the son of Hiram and Sarah Stocum and in his youth, attended Ionia public schools. He had resided in Ionia county most of his life and had been a barber in Portland for over 50 years. Mr. Stocum was a life member of the Masonic Lodge and was a member of the Portland Methodist church. He was married to the former Hattie Young of Buffalo, N.Y., in Buffalo in 1902. Preceded in death by his wife March 17, and a son, William H. Stocum in 1943, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Willard C. (Catherine) Knapp of Ionia, a sister, Mrs. J. T. Warford of Lansing; a brother, John G. Stocum of Lyons. Friends and relatives are being received at the Neller funeral home in Portland, where funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon, August 29, at 2:30. The Rev. Park Newcombe will officiate and interment will be in the Portland cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/stocum27247nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb