Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Yeomans, Maurice January 9, 1967
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, January 9, 1967
Funeral services will be at Boynton funeral home Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. for 
Maurice Yeomans, 84, of route three, who died at Ionia County Memorial 
hospital Monday morning.  Mr. Yeomans was admitted to the hospital at 12 a.m. 
Monday.  He was born on a farm in Orleans township, April 7, 1882 and was the 
son of Willard S. and Clara Gott Yeomans.

A farmer, Mr. Yeomans was a patient at the Ionia Manor since March of 1965 and 
was a patient at Bide-A-Wee convalescent home in Belding one year previous.  
Mr. Yeomans’ grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Yeomans were one of the six 
families to settle in Ionia along with Samuel Dexter in 1833.  He attended 
First Baptist church and is survived by a niece, Mrs. Don Braman of Ionia and 
four cousins, Gerald Yeomans, E. S. Yeomans Jr., and Mrs. Laura Youngs of 
Ionia and Gus Gott of Orleans.  

The family will be at the funeral home Tuesday evening from 7 until 9 
o’clock.  Rev. Lowell Young will officiate and interment will be in the family 
lot at Highland Park cemetery.

Subsequent Publication:  Friday, January 13, 1967

Rev. Lowell Young officiated at funeral services for Maurice Yeomans, 
Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.  Friends and relatives form out of town attending were 
Mr. and Mrs. James Hansen and Mr. and Mrs. Miles Hansen of rural Edmore; 
Charles Selleck and Mrs. Helen Kenny of rural Fenwick; Mr. and Mrs. Ray 
Peterson, Belding; Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Higley of Lyons; Mr. and Mrs. Walter 
Hunt, R.F.D. Merriett; Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Gott, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bennett 
and son, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Leach, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Heppe, Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry Heppe, Mr. and Mrs. Art Clifford, Mr. L. B. Hull, Mrs. Anne Manley and 
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pierson all of rural Orleans.

Bearers were Leland Hicks, Lee Harrington, Ovett Harrington, Robert Bennett, 
Steven Kenter Jr., and Steven Hartman.  Interment was at Highland Park 
cemetery.



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