Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....VanHouten, Chalmer 1955 ************************************************ 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 mlnransom@chartermi.net August 21, 2010, 2:21 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, March 23, 1955 Chalmer VanHouten, 46, of Montcalm county died Tuesday at the United Memorial Hospital, Greenville. He was born May 30, 1908 in Sebewa township, Ionia county. He was married to Edna Merrifield in 1929. Mr. and Mrs. VanHouten had been managers at the Montcalm county infirmary and farms for 13 years. Before that they had spent their married life in Ionia county. Surviving besides his wife, Edna, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen VanHouten; one sister, Mrs. Harry Denny; four brothers, Gerald, Theo, Keith and Paul, of Ionia. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Stebbins funeral home in Sheridan. The Rev. Parvin Lee of Detroit will officiate. Burial will be at the Stanwood cemetery at Stanwood. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/v/vanhoute8489nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb