Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thomas, Roy (Mr.) January 25, 1971
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Lake Odessa Wave - January 28, 1971
           ROY THOMAS PASSES AWAY
   Roy Thomas 73, of 3225 North Broadway, Hastings, passed away late Monday
afternoon at Pennock 
Hospital, Hastings, following a long illness.  He was born in Ionia county Oct. 4,
1897, son of Abram and Elmira 
(Kime) Thomas and attended Lake Odessa High School.
   October 2, 1919, he married Ilo Mote of Lake Odessa and they farmed for six years
in the area until moving 
to Hastings where he operated a gasline station for several years.  He then owned
and operated the Hastings 
Burial Vault Co. for 28 years and in 1953 sold the business and took a position with
the Miller Real Estate Co., 
retiring in 1964.
   Mr. Thomas served on the board of directors of the Hastings Savings and Loan
Association for 23 years and 
was serving as vice president at the time of his death.  A past president of the
Hastings Rotary Club, past 
noble grand of Hastings IOOF Lodge and a member of Grace Brethren Church on Vedder
Rod, southwest of 
Lake Odessa, since 1913.
   Surviving are his wife and three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Swiger of Lansing, Mrs.
Homer (Ruby) Klingman of Lake 
Odessa and Mrs. George (Martha) Kussmaul of Woodbury.
   Funeral services were held at the Leonard - Osgood Funeral Home at Hastings
Thursday (today) at 2 p.m.. 
Rev. Richard Cornwell officiating with burial in Lakeside Cemetery.


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