Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wagner, Louis W. 1943
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, March 19, 1943

Louis W. Wagner, 64 for 35 years a foreman at the Ypsilanti-Reed Furniture 
company, died suddenly Friday morning at 2:15 o’clock at his home at 714 West 
Lincoln avenue.  He had worked all day Thursday at the Reed company and spent 
the evening at the home of his son.  Death came while he was sleeping.

He was born February 24, 1879, in Logansport, Indiana.  He was the son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Louis A. Wagner.  December 29, 1900, he was married to Alma Leith of 
Chicago and the couple made their home there for four years.  Later, they 
moved to Los Angeles, where they spent five years.  In 1909, the couple moved 
to Ionia, where they had lived since.

Surviving besides the widow, Alma; are two sons, Louis Wagner, Jr., of Ionia 
and Raymond Wagner, with the U.S. army, stationed at Camp Adair, Oregon; a 
daughter, Mrs. James Miller of Lansing; two grandsons; three sisters, Mrs. 
Laura Paxton of Los Angeles; Mrs. Emma Donner of Glendale, California, and 
Mrs. E. Grebenstine of Los Angeles; two brothers, A. L. Wagner of Los Angeles 
and William Wagner of Chicago.

Funeral arrangements will be announced later, pending the arrival of the son, 
Pvt. Raymond Wagner.

Subsequent Publication:  Thursday, March 25, 1943

Funeral services for Louis W. Wagner, 64, of 714 West Lincoln avenue, were 
held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Stone funeral home.  Rev. F. G. 
Dunbar officiated and burial was in the family lot at Balcom cemetery.

Floral arrangements were in charge of Mrs. Fred Barnes, Mrs. Walter Harter and 
Mrs. Robert Alspaugh.  Pallbearers were Wilson Dalzell, Arthur B. Kauffman, 
Leon Lockwood, Fred Barnes, Ivan Clark and Andrew Gilhooley.

Employees of the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture company attended services in a 
body.  Attending from away were Pvt. Raymond Wagner of Camp Adair, Oregon; Mr. 
and Mrs. Walter Raguse and son, Marvin of Jackson; Mr. and Mrs. Homer 
Schlosser of Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Murray Gehr of Coloma; Mr. and Mrs. John 
Kalb and Mr. and Mrs. Olney Maynard of Lyons; Mr. and Mrs. Marion Carey of 
Saranac.



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