Eugene Myers' obituary, Sparta Township, Kent County, Michigan

SUBJECT: Eugene Myers's obituary
SUBMITTER: Dennis Zank
EMAIL: dennyz@a1access.net
DATE: Apr 04, 1999
SURNAMES: Myers, Harkins, Procunier
HEART AILMENT PROVES FATAL TO NATIVE CITIZEN

Funeral Services Will Be Held In Sparta Friday

Eugene Myers, one of the oldest residents and native of Sparta township,
passed away unexpectedly, from a heart ailment, Monday night January 22,
on his 88th birthday, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Isabelle Harkins,
1301 Cass Ave., S. E., Grand Rapids.

Mr. Myers reposes in the Bettes Memorial Chapel, where funeral services
will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30, with interment in the Myers cemetery,
the Rev. G. R. Brown officiating.

The last survivor of the family of eleven childern of Hiram and Barbara
Myers, pioneer settlers of this community, who came here from Canada, he
was born in 1857 on the Myers homestead in East Sparta township where he
lived the greater part of his life. As a young man he spent much of his
time working in the lumber woods of Michigan.

Following his marriage to Miss Mina Pease, also of Sparta, he settled on
a farm in Solon township, where he resided for many years. After the death
of his wife, who passed away 43 years ago. Mr. Myers continued to maintain
the home and devoted his life to bringing up their four children, Ernest,
Zina(Pat), Isabelle and Edna.

Since retiring from the farm several years ago, Mr. Myers had made his
home in Sparta and with his children.


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