Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Weed, George A. 1926 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net August 27, 2010, 5:40 pm The Lake Odessa Wave, December 23, 1926 Among the faithful and loyal citizens of Lake Odessa from its beginning forty years ago, there have been none greater than George A. Weed, whose remains were brought home from Battle Creek Sanitarium last Saturday morning. Of the early men who were loyal and faithful in the business interests of this little city, there have remained only a very few to keep their relationships here until called to that other city from which none return. Many have lived here a while and then sought other places more alluring for financial or other reasons. Among those faithful ones was Mr. Weed whose preference seemed to be to remain where he had invested his time and money forty years ago. Taking up the business of furniture and undertaking, the latter business brought him into nearly every home in Lake Odessa and vicinity and he always had a helpful word for those in sorrow or in trouble. He was the president of the tri-county fair held here many years in succession and was an official of the state association of county fairs for some time. As a financier, he was almost always wise in making investments. He was one of the heaviest stock holders in the Farmers and Merchants bank of which he was president at the time of his death. He was proprietor and owner of the large Weed stock farm of this place and had interests in other institutions outside his home village. In 1895 with Frank Nims and others he formed a company and built the early independent Telephone exchange here which was afterward sold to the State Company and later to the Bell Exchange. Offices have always been in his building. He and Frank Nims promoted what was known as the Weed and Nims addition which enlarged the village and gave it its Boulevard. He was interested in the Lake Odessa Milk Co., and one of the promoters of the Lake Odessa Fox farm. He was a member of the Masonic order and Knights of Pythias and always an active member of all Commercial organizations of the village. He was a member of the Grand Rapids Masonic Club also. Mr. Weed’s health has been on the decline for the past two years but he has kept up most of the time. On Monday previous to his death he was persuaded to go to Battle Creek Sanitarium for treatment and there he died on Friday, December 16th. He was sixty-nine years of age. He leaves a wife, a daughter, Mrs. Lottie Wright and a son Verne, and three grand-children, all of Grand Rapids. The funeral was held at the home Monday afternoon. The spacious rooms were filled. Undertaker Fred Baine of Charlotte assisted by Walter Wortley, had charge of the funeral. Rev. A. H. Lash, Congregational minister and friend, of Ann Arbor made a prayer and gave a splendid eulogy. Rev. O. F. Bulman of the Central Methodist here, preached from the Scripture found in Ecclesiastes XII. The remains lay amid a profusion of flowers during the stay in the home. Burial was at Lake Side cemetery. Those from out of town to attend the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wright and family and Mr. and Mrs. Verne Weed and family of Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Rising of Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hatton of Woodland; Jason McElwain of Bell Telephone Co., Hastings; Wm. Brummeler and John Haze of the Grand Rapids Bedding Company; Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Rowlander of Grand Rapids; Harry Hatton and son Leland of Clyde, Ohio; Fred Power and George W. Chapel, of the Powers and Walker Casket Co., Grand Rapids, also Glenn England, of the Grand Rapids Casket Co., Grand Rapids; Sam Huldin of the Wolverine Furniture Co., Grand Rapids; Howard C. Lawrence of Ionia; Charles Leonard of Hastings and Rev. A. H. Lash of Ann Arbor. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/weed8912nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb