Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hinds, John B. 1940 ************************************************ 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 mlnransom@chartermi.net June 13, 2013, 6:08 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, July 6, 1940 Word was received this week of the death of John B. Hinds, former Ionian, who died at his home in Yonkers, New York., Thursday, June 27. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hinds and was born and raised in Ionia. He left Ionia over thirty years ago and before his health failed was an accountant for the New York Central railroad. He founded the VanCortlandt lodge, F. and A. M. and was a member of the Royal Arch Masons, the Royal and Select, Knights Templar, 32nd degree A.A.S.R., Scottish Rite, Valley of Albany, a noble of the Mystic Shrine, Cyprus Temple, Albany, and a past master in the Hammond, Ind. Masonic lodge. Funeral services were conducted by the VanCourrtlandt Masonic lodge Sunday, June 30, in New York and interment was at Mt. Hope cemetery in Yonkers, N.Y. Surviving are the widow, Anna Hurdle Hinds, a former Ionia county teacher; one son, Forrest E. Hinds, two sisters, Mrs. Nellie M. King and Mrs. Marie Michelson; and one brother, T.N. Hinds, all of Ionia. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/h/hinds20799nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb