Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Waara, Robert Otto 1975
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, September 12, 1975


A golf pro and former owner and operator of the Portland Country club, Robert 
O. Waara, 60 died Friday evening at the St. Lawrence hospital in Lansing.  He 
had been a patient three weeks being treated for a heart condition.

He had made his home at 740 Riverside drive, Portland, and was a resident of 
Portland 20 years.  He sold the Portland Country club a year ago due to ill 
health.

Born June 9, 1915, at Hancock, he was the son of Otto and Lydia Schuler Waara.  
He was a member of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, army veteran of World War 
II, member of the Portland post of Veterans of Foreign Wars, and was a member 
of the Professional Golfer’s association 42 years.

Besides his wife, Olafia, he leave a son, Norman of Santa Barbara, Calif., two 
daughters, Lilya Waara of Portland, and Mrs. Lola Pline of Pewamo; three 
grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Harold Merriman of Bronson and Mrs. Sylvester 
Jansen of Garden City.

The funeral will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Neller funeral home at Portland. 
Rev. Harold Homer will officiate and interment will be at the Portland cemetery.


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