Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Velte, Samuel 1936
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Lake Odessa Wave, 17 Dec 1936

The funeral of Samuel Velte held from the late home Friday afternoon was 
largely attended and there was a profusion of flowers the large living room 
being deeply banked on both sides, all of which attesting to the high regard in 
which he was held.

Mr. Velte was a great lover of flowers, his hobby for several years back having 
been the development of quite an extensive flower garden on his vacant lots 
just across the street east from his residence.  A great many different 
varieties might be seen blooming there throughout the entire summer season.  
His favorites, however, seemed to be those in the gladiolus family, practically 
an entire village lot having been devoted to the culture of that group.  Hardly 
a season passed by but that he had several gladiolus entries at the Ionia Free 
fair and they brought him many prizes.

Unintentionally omitted from our write-up about Mr. Velte in The Wave-Times of 
last week was that he was a member of the Lake Odessa Lions club.  He had also 
been a member of the old Commercial club, and in fact, all of the different 
business men’s organizations in the village since he came here.  He also had 
served in various official capacities in these groups and the brotherhoods.  He 
had been actively identified in an official capacity in the Tri-County Fair 
association of thirty years ago.

Among those from out of town who were in attendance at the funeral were the 
Misses Anna and Emma Velte, John and Charles Velte, Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
Schaibley, Mr. and Mrs. William Velte, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Velte and son 
Richard, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bates, Miss Bertha Wagner, and Miss Olga Eckardt, 
all of Woodland; Mrs. Anna Schelter of Woodbury, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Murray, 
Mr. and Mrs. Phill Sullivan, and Mr. and Mrs. Con Sullivan, of Grand Rapids; 
Mr. and Mrs. John Sullivan of Ionia, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. 
Fred Stebbins, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Conoway, of Hastings, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd 
Drayton of Dayton, Ohio.

State Banking Commr. Howard C. Lawrence of Lansing, Willard G. Hawley, cashier 
of the Ionia County National bank at Ionia; Carl O. Derby, cashier of the 
Maynard-Allen State bank at Portland, Fred Rowe and William Traynick from the 
Valley City Milling company at Portland, and Byron Ayres of the American Life 
Insurance company in Detroit.


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