Ionia-Gratiot County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wiles, Walter G. 1976 ************************************************ 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 mransom311@gmail.com August 25, 2014, 2:12 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, August 11, 1976 Walter G. Wiles, 76, Ionia, died Tuesday morning at Ionia County Memorial Hospital. Mr. Wiles was born Aug. 23, 1899 in New Haven Township, Gratiot County. He was a self-employed painter and was a member of the U.S. Army in France during World War I. He married the former Ila Howay in 1919. They lived in Ithaca until moving to Ionia in 1924. She died Aug. 1, 1970. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Betty McNally, Fenwick, Mrs. Bird (Iris) Groom, Greenville; a son, Maynard, Ionia; a sister, Mrs. Beatrice Fortney, Ithaca; a step-brother, Percy Birch, Muskegon; 10 grandchildren and five great- grandchildren. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Friday at Leddick Funeral Home, Ionia, the Rev. Kenneth Harger of Shiloh Community Church officiating. Interment will be in New Haven Center Cemetery. The family will be at the funeral home to receive friends and relatives tonight from 7 to 9 and Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/wiles27327nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb