Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wacha, Thomas A. June 3, 1974 ************************************************ 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: Maureen Cross mcross3454@gmail.com March 15, 2022, 2:02 pm Lake Odessa Wave - June 6, 1974 LAST RITES FOR THOMAS WACHA Thomas A Wacha, 71, passed away Monday afternoon at Pennock Hospital, Hastings where he was hospitalized two weeks following an extend illness. He was born April 10, 1903 in Orleans township, Ionia County, the son of Joseph and Catherine (Carten) Wacha. He married Evelyn M. Daniels, August 25, 1932 in Ionia and has been a resident of Lake Odessa for the past 40 years. Mr. Wacha was a member of St. Edwards Church of Lake Odessa and a retired employee of the Lake Odessa Canning Company. Surviving are his wife: a daughter, Mrs. Leon (Dorene) Collins of Lake Odessa two sons, Daniel of Lowell and Thomas J. of Sunfield; 12 grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Francis (Geraldine) Gee of Muir and Mrs. Leonard (Alice) Christian of Wyoming; and three brothers, John of Belding Lawrence and Hugh both of Orleans. Funeral services were held Thursday (today) at ten o'clock at St. Edward Church. Father Raymond Sonefeld of the St. Rose of Lima Church of Hastings officiated with burial in the Lakeside Cemetery. The Bible Rosary was recited at 8:15 Wednesday evening at the Pickens-Koops Funeral Chapel where he reposed. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/wacha42853nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb