Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Whittemore, Ira January 29, 1963 ************************************************ 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: Patricia Currigan currigan1932@comcast.net September 11, 2022, 5:52 pm Lake Odessa Wave - Thurs. January 31, 1963 Ira Whittemore Passed Away Ira Whittemore, 89, 1504 Harrison St, passed away Tuesday night at Pennock hospital. He was taken to Blodgett hospital, January 13 and transferred to Pennock last Friday. Mr. Whittemore, a native of Ohio has been a local resident for many years and for the last six years or more has resided at the home of Mrs.Hester Yarger. His first wife Mary passed away in 1939 and several years later he married Agnes Kellogg and she passed away about eight years ago. Mr.Whittemore, spent a year in California after the death of his second wife and then returned to sell his home on First Avenue and since then had lived at the Yarger home. He was well known in the surrounding areas, as was a sheep shearer for many years. Surviving are his daughter mrs.Milo (Frances) Kussmaul of Gardens, California. Mr.Whittemore reposes at the Pickens Funeral Capel. Funeral services will be held Friday at 1:30 with burial in Lakeside cemetery. Additional Comments: Lakeside Cem.#9-1067-4 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/whittemo43904nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb