Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Williston, James I. 1955
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, December 24, 1955


James I. Williston, a native Ionian who had lived in Allanson and Detroit 
before returning to Ionia, died at 9 a.m. Saturday.  Mr. Williston had been ill 
about two years and died in Droste-Ferguson hospital in Grand Rapids.

He was born in Ionia and as a youngster moved with his parents to Allanson in 
northern Michigan and then returned to Ionia.  He became identified with the 
Ionia post office and served as a city carrier for a number of years.  He 
resigned his post office position to enter the hotel business and with S.C.L. 
Brown purchased the old Bailey house which stood at the corner of Main and Kidd 
streets on the location occupied by the Ionia theater.  The hotel was renamed 
Brown-Williston.  In 1920 Mr. Williston sold out his interest and moved to 
Detroit where he operated apartment houses, later returning to Ionia. He 
purchased the Ionia American House which is now known as Look’s hotel and 
renamed it the Williston hotel after considerable modernization.  In 1945 he 
sold the hotel to Curt Lock of Grand Rapids who since has sold the hotel.

During the winters, Mr. and Mrs. Williston have vacationed in Florida and 
California.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Boynton funeral 
home.  The Rev. Fr. R. J. Bundy will officiate.

Surviving are the wife Jeannette Williston and a number of nieces and nephews.  
The couple had no children.

Entombment will be at the Highland Park mausoleum.



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