Ogemaw County MI Archives Military Records.....Fleming, Eddy W. February 12, 1953
Spanishwar 35 MI - Co A
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Obituary
SERVICES HELD FOR FORMER ROSE CITY EDITOR, TEACHER
Funeral services for Eddy W. Fleming, former editor of the Rose City Review 
and postmaster at Rose City where he resided for the past 35 years, were held 
at Shelby, Michigan following his death in the Saginaw Veterans Hospital on 
January 30, after an illness of three months.  Born in Perry, Michigan on 
February 9, 1868, Mr. Fleming was a member of the first graduating class of 
the Shelby High School.  He attended Ferris Institute, Olivet College and 
Michigan State Teachers College of Ypsilanti before starting on a varied 
career in the teaching field.  He also served as County School Commissioner of 
Oceana County between the years of 1903 and 1907.  In 1932 he received the 
high honor of having an honorary membership in the National Education 
Association bestowed upon him.  In addition to his activities in the teaching 
profession he edited the Walkerville News, the Prescott Journal and the Rose 
City Review.  A veteran of the Spanish American War, burial rites at the grave 
in Mt. Hope cemetery, Shelby, were conducted by the Shelby American Legion 
Post.  On October 25, 1900 Eddy Fleming and Bessie Holt, of Walkerville were 
united in marriage.  To this union, two daughters and two sons all of whom 
survive were born.  Besides his wife, Bessie, their two sons, Quentin and 
Llewellyn of Detroit and the two daughters Mrs. Gwendolyn Wilson of Saginaw 
and Mrs. Carola Duncan of Birmingham, he is survived by nine grandchildren and 
three great-grandchildren.


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