Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thorpe, Freeman 1933 ************************************************ 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 May 28, 2011, 4:45 pm Portland Observer, 28 Dec 1933 Freeman Thorpe Passes At Ionia Was Former Sebewa Resident And Has Two Brothers Living In Portland. Freeman Thorpe, 60, a former well known resident of Sebewa, died Saturday at his home in Ionia after a long illness. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the West Sebewa church. Burial was made in the Lake Odessa cemetery. Mr. Thorpe was born in Jackson county, coming to Sebewa with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gide Thorpe Sr. He was a carpenter by trade. Besides the widow he is survived by four daughters and two sons, Mrs. Bertha Kneal, Mrs. Melissa Young, Mrs. Iva A. Aickens, Mrs. Alice Bradfield, all of Ionia, Guy Thorpe, of Clarksville, and Max Thorpe, at home. He leaves three brothers Gide, of Ionia and George and Bert, of Portland. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/thorpe12527nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb