Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....VanOcker, T. Earl 1996 ************************************************ 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 October 3, 2014, 5:36 pm Greenville Daily News, 5 Jan 1996 T. Earl VanOcker, 69, 6201 Whites Bridge Road, Belding, passed away Thursday, Jan. 4, 1996 at Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids. He was born June 9, 1926, in Greenville, the son of Theodore R. and Nina M. Compton VanOcker. He was an electrician at Gibson’s Products Corp. at Belding, from 1942 to 1985. He was a veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Lester J. Sitts VFW Post 5065, Sheridan, and the Hugo Fales American Legion Post 203, Belding. He was also a member of Smyrna Bible Church. On Nov. 7, 1948, at Belding he married Loma L. Ross. He is survived by his wife, Loma L. VanOcker of Smyrna; three sisters and brothers-in-law, Loretta and Robert Lane Greenville, Theodora and Don Maltman of Belding, Maryann and Fred Reeves of Smyrna; one brother and sister-in-law, Ernest and Rosemary VanOcker of Belding; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; one sister, Maxine Jones, in 1985; and one brother, Marvin Glenn, in 1970. Funeral and committal services will be Monday at 2 p.m. at the Huffman Funeral Home, Belding, with the Revs. Darwin Hassert and Kenneth Harger officiating. Interment will be in Otisco Cemetery, Belding. Military services will be under the auspices of the Lester J. Sitts VFW Post 5065. Visitation will be Saturday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m., and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Donovan Memorial Scholarship Fund at Belding High School. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/v/vanocker28794nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb