Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tower, Dr. Elbert J. 1958 ************************************************ 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, 1:45 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, February 28, 1958 Dr. Elbert J. Tower, 78, a native and former resident of Ionia and for over 40 years a Cedar Spring dentist, died in Butterworth hospital in Grand Rapids Thursday. Dr. Tower was a frequent Ionia visitor and owned buildings on Main street. He retired from active dental practice a year ago. Word of his death was received here by life-long friends, Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery Webster. Dr. Tower was a charter member of the Cedar Springs Rotary and past treasurer of the club. He had served as village treasurer and had been a member of the district school board. Surviving are his wife, Lida; a son, John, superintendent of the Newhall school in Grand Rapids; a daughter, Mrs. Florence Nason of Belding and two grandchildren. Funeral service is to be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Walsh-Bliss funeral home. Temporary entombment will be at Elmwood cemetery. Burial will be in the family lot at Highland Park cemetery in Ionia in the spring. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/tower27278nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb