Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Van Deusen, R. G. August 23, 1962
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Ionia Sentinel Standard-Thurs. Aug. 23, 1962

Owner Of Hardware Is Dead
R. G. VanDeusen, 64, Ionia merchant and owner of the Ionia Hardware Company and
former Mayor of Buchanan, died unexpectedly at the Ionia County Memorial hospital Thursday
at 8:30 am. 

Ill Since he was removed to the hospital August 7, he had shown improvement until 
Wednesday when his condition became critical.

A native of Elsie where he was born November 11, 1898, he came to Ionia when he 
purchased the Ionia Hardware form the estate of the late Fred T. Wortman in 1949.

He attended St Johns public schools and following graduation was a student at the 
University of Michigan for two years. He became identified with Consumers Power 
Company and accepted a position in their Jackson office where he remained several
years. He moved to Elkhart, Indiana for a short time and then opened a gasoline business in
Buchanan where he remained about 20 years.

While a resident of Buchanan he became a charter member of the Lions club and served
that community as its Mayor.

In Ionia he was a member of the Lions, the Masons, The Ionia County Fishing and
Hunting club and a past president of the Ionia chamber of commerce a position to which he
was elected in 1952.

He was married to Leiah Turner of Williamston on October 17, 1925 at Lansing.

Surviving are four children, Thomas of New York City, John a trooper of the Michigan
State Police stationed at the Houghton Lake post; Rick of Ionia, who has been associated
in the hardware business with his father; and a daughter Ann, a college student; two
sisters, Mrs. Harold Millman of St. Johns and Mrs. Harry Dubey of Dallas, Texas; and four
grandchildren. 

A memorial fund for the Presbyterian church has been established.

Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.

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