Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Vandevenne, August J. 1961 ************************************************ 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 April 19, 2017, 7:12 am Ionia County News, 17 Aug 1961 August J. Vandervenne, 70, a longtime merchant in Portland, died on Wednesday, August 2, at a Lansing hospital. He was a native of Detroit and a veteran of World War I. He had operated a food retail business in Portland for 30 years. Survivors are his wife, Gertrude; two sons, Joseph of Lansing and Thomas of Hastings; one daughter, Marilyn at home and one sister, Mrs. Ida Leithead of Pompano Beach, Florida. Funeral services were held on Saturday, August 5 at 2:00 p.m. at the Neller funeral home in Portland. Interment was in Greenwood cemetery in Fowlerville. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/v/vandeven6057gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb