Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Utess, John 1940
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, January 24, 1940
Funeral services for 80-year-old John Utess, first highway victim in Ionia 
county during 1940, who died Sunday afternoon at the Ionia community hospital 
as a result of injuries received when he was struck by a car January 13 were 
held from the Myers funeral home Tuesday afternoon, January 23, at 2 o’clock,  
Rev. Earl Kneebone of the St. John’s Episcopal church officiated at the 
services and read the Odd Fellow ritual.  Interment was in Highland Park 
cemetery.  Bearers were Bert Bailey, George White, Thomas Rich, Karl Zander, 
Leon McQuillan and F. A. Marker.  

Those attending from out of town were Mrs. Minnie Swartz of Jackson, Charles 
Utess of Florida, Mrs. Richard Todd of Jackson, J. C. Pierce of Grand Rapids 
and Ernest Pierce of Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Members of the IOOF lodge, the Beatrice Rebekah lodge No. 100, and the 
encampment of the subordinate lodge attended the funeral in a body.



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