Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thorington, Stanley E. March 25, 2004
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, March 26, 2004
Stanley E. Thorington, 63, of Belding passed away Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 
his home while under the loving care of his family and Hospice.  He was born 
May 17, 1940 in a log cabin near Kalkaska the son of Raymond and Nellie Outman 
Thorington. 

Stan graduated from Greenville High School with the class of 1958. He attended 
Montcalm Community College and Davenport College in Grand Rapids.

Stan was a member of the Belding-Ionia F&AM Lodge #355, the TPA, the Sunday 
Night Fun Bowling League and the Michigan Corrections' Officer Union. He 
worked for the Department of Corrections as a corrections officer at the 
Deerfield Correctional Facility in Ionia where he was the Officer of the Year 
in 2002. He later retired that same year. Prior to his career with the 
Department of Corrections he worked for many years at H&H Beer Distributing.  
Stan had a great appreciation of Mother Nature and the outdoors. He loved to 
feed the birds and do yard chores on his John Deere. He also enjoyed his TV. 
He especially liked to watch sports-the Detroit Tigers, Lions and NASCAR.  
Stan never met a stranger, always had a positive outlook and had a wonderful 
sense of humor. He will be greatly missed by his family and his many friends.

On August 2, 1997 Stan married Billie Jean Burkhart and she survives along 
with their children, Craig and Marilyn Thorington of Sheridan, Kim Thorington 
and Dan Neeley of Belding, Mike Thorington of Grand Rapids, Jennifer Parker of 
Saranac, Wendy and John Magee of Vermontville and his mother Nellie Thorington 
of Greenville.  Stan is also survived by his grandchildren, Jerrad Higgins, 
Elizabeth Thorington, Daniel Babbitt, Tara Babbitt, Jon and Heather Sherwood, 
Jamie Parker, Madalynn Burkhart, Bethany and Connor Magee, Ben and Phyllissa 
Neeley, and his great grandchildren Alexis, Christopher, Kaitlyn. Stan is also 
survived by his brothers and sisters and their spouses, Nancy and Ken Harriman 
of Greenville, Allan and Karen Thorington of White Cloud, June and Ed Truswell 
of Saranac, Ron and Alice Van Bennekom of Grand Rapids many special aunts, 
uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, the Rick and Julie Meyers family, the Burt 
and Judy Van Bennekom family, the Paul and Linda Van Bennekom Family, Bryce 
and Sharon Weeks Family and Stephanie and Jason Smith Family.  Stan was 
preceded in death by his father, Raymond.

Funeral services for Stan will be 11 a.m. Monday at Johnson-Feuerstein Funeral 
Home, Belding with Fr. Scott Anderson of St. Johns Episcopal Church of Ionia 
officiating.  Interment will be in Saranac Cemetery.  Visitation will be 
Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home with a 
Masonic Service at 8 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Hope Lodge of 
the American Cancer Society, Ionia Area Hospice or Belding /Ionia Masonic 
Lodge #355.



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