Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Villa, Nicholas 1915
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The Ionia Weekly Standard, Friday, August 13, 1915
Nicholas Villa died very suddenly at half past one this afternoon, after an 
illness of about a week.  The end was entirely unexpected, and came without 
warning.  Mr. and Mrs. Villa have lived here about a year and a half, and 
opened their store, the Princess, last fall.  Besides his wife Mr. Villa 
leaves two nephews, Frank and James Villa.  Mr. Villa’s health has been poor 
for many years.

Subsequent Publication:  Friday, August 20, 1915

Nicholas Villa, proprietor of the Princess, died at half past one, Thursday 
afternoon at the home in the Wager block.  He had been ill for about three 
years, but it was only during the past week that his sickness was considered 
serious.  He was in Grand Rapids for a few days the first of the week but was 
brought back here and had been confined to his bed ever since.  Tuesday noon, 
however, he seemed better, and the end came without a second’s warning and was 
a great shock.

Mr. Villa retired from business in Grand Rapids at the time that his illness 
first appeared, having kept a store next to the Pantlind Hotel for twenty-five 
years before that.  It is thirty-four years since he came to American from 
Genoa, Italy, where he was born fifty-three years ago.  After retirement in 
Grand Rapids Mr. Villa did no active work.  The store here was opened just 
eleven months before his death, and has been conducted by Mrs. Villa and by a 
nephew, Frank Villa, whom Mr. and Mrs. Villa brought up.  Their only child, a 
boy, died twelve years ago. Another nephew, James Villa, lives in this city.  

Mr. Villa leaves, besides the relatives here, two sisters in Grand Rapids, one 
in Italy, a brother in France and one in America.

The funeral was held on Monday morning at nine o’clock at St. Andrew’s Chapel 
in Grand Rapids, and burial took place in the family lot there.


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