1939 Deaths
as reported in the
Pioneer Newspaper






JANUARY 



02 - Mrs. Charles E. Emmons

02 - Mrs. R. DeGear, Deerfield Township

05 - Charles Pfhistner

06 - Francis Bennett, Big Rapids vicinity 

12 - Wm. H. Mack

19 - Mrs. Ada Mae Reynolds, Davis Bridge vicinity 

19 - Wm. H. Bouck, MOrley 

21 - Mrs. Angeline Abbey 

22 - Doris Virginia Kennedy (Community Hospital)

23 - Mrs. George Peper, Paris 

23 - Mrs. Blanche Chudley, Mecosta 

23 - Charles D. Somers, Evart

24 - Mrs. Charles A. Morgan, Evart

27 - J. Warren Jones

27 - Mrs. Ida L. Stoddard

27 - B.I. Webster

29 - R.E. VanAlstine, Big Rapids vicinity 

31 - Fred Hayes, Norwich Township



FEBRUARY



01 - Ira A. Buck

02 - George Lloyd 

02 - George Fountain, Morley vicinity 

06 - Arthur H. Stevens, Grant Township

09 - Joe Garvon, Chase

10 - Irving VanAlstine, Grant Township

12 - Mrs. Edna Bell, Borland

12 - Mrs. Edna Josephine Meyer, Goodwell Township, Newaygo County

12 - William Brooker, Martiny Township

17 - George H. Wood, Mecosta 

17 - Mrs. Dewey Miller, Broomfield Township

18 - John P. Jameson, Deerfield Township

18 - Paul Worthy - Mecosta vicinity

20 - Mrs. Elsie Oliver, Millbrook

21 - Lorenzo Larkin (University Hospital, Ann Arbor)

21 - George E. Jackson, Hawkins vicinity

22 - James H. Bowyer 

23 - George Morrsi Reed, Colfax Township

27 - Mrs. Helen Cassidy, Big Rapids vicinity 

27 - Guy Wilson, (Community Hospital)



MARCH



03 - Mrs. Emily Malisson, Hawkins vicinity 

04 - Joyce Elaine Toodgood (Community Hospital)

05 - Howard Williams

05 - Mrs. Wilhelmina Mason

05 - Chauncey Smithson Elliot, Stanwood

11 - Mrs. Addie Watson Hibbert, Blue Lake

11 - Earl Lyons (In Pontiac)

12 - Ira Latham, Millbrook

16 - Guy Smith (In Community Hospital)

17 - Mrs. Mary Cline, Paris vicinity 

18 - Mrs. Maud Lillian Buckland Rowell

19 - Mrs. John Ford

19 - George Anderson

20 - Mrs. Elva Young, Millbrook

21 - Miss Katie Hahn

23 - Emory J. Toth 

23 - Mrs. O.G. Hanson

23 - Mrs. Arnold Thurston, Stanwood

23 - Mrs. Minnie Lloyd

23 - Charles Ross, Big Rapids vicinity 

23 - Mrs. Anna Runnels, Big Prairie

28 - Mrs. Ellen Horrigan

28 - Mrs. Holden Cook, Stanwood vicinity 

29 - William Riley Downs, Evart



APRIL



02 - Charles Peterson, Woodville vicinity (in Alms)

02 - Mrs. Conrad Gruber, Evart

06 - G.M.D. Knettles, Deerfield Township

09 - Elmer E. Dishong, Deerfield Township

10 - William Franklin Umphrey, Evart

11 - Mrs. I.S. Hunn, Paris (In Owossow)

13 - Adolf Anderson, Rodney vicinity 

15 - Charles F. Haywood

16 - Mrs. M.E. Cota

18 - James Bailey, Evart

18 - Mrs. Amelia Griffin, Community Hospital

20 - Mrs. William Yost

20 - Mrs. Victoria Rosenweig, Stanwood

21 - Peter Borstler



MAY 



02 - Leonard Bruner

05 - Samuel P. Young, Grant Township

09 - Mrs. Neal Richardson, Broomfield Township

13 - Mrs. Emmeline Reed, Colfax Township

13 - Mrs. Nancy Amos Lightfoot, Ladner District

14 - Sylvester Luce, Hawkins vicinity 

19 - Mrs. Maude Otto

26 - Mrs. Margaret Strang, Hinton Township



JUNE 



03 - Mrs. Chris Mehl

04 - Mrs. Almeda Conkwright, Woodville

06 - Mrs. Elsie Schroeder Mehl

07 - William H. Fuller

07 - Christian Tetzlaff, Colfax Township

11 - Loyal James Buffin, Grant Center, (In Community Hospital)

14 - Otis A. Lidell (In Jackson)



JULY 



03 - Mrs. Barbara Zimmer, Rodney vicinity 

04 - Mrs. Hilda Christine Modrow, Norwich Township

04 - Mrs. Elizabeth Auble, Barton Township

06 - Miss Carrie Bergy (Blodgett Hospital, Grand Rapids)

06 - Lawrence Peel, Evart

07 - Seth Zetterstedt

07 - Mrs. Gertrude Birdsall, Evart

07 - Miss Lola Spanogle, Morley (In Comunity Hospital)

08 - Elihu W. Larkin

09 - John Doyle, Big Rapids Township

11 - Mrs. Volney Hanchett

12 - Mrs. C.A. Grover

13 - Frederick Friedell, Horsehead Lake

14 - Mrs. John Plating (In Greenville)

17 - George Winters, MOrley (In Community Hospital)

19 - Mrs. Nina Sams, Higbee Community (In Community Hospital

26 - Lyle Thebo, Woodville

26 - Robert Storey, Millbrook

27 - Orville Raymond Stewart

30 - Andrew Nelson

30 - John Shimancki, Twin Lakes vicinity 



AUGUST



02 - George W. Bender, Mecosta Township

02 - Mrs. Kate Newkirk, Stanwood

03 - Mrs. Amy Reed Hale

04 - Mrs. Charles Ackerman, Morley 

05 - Mrs. Alice Bogart

05 - William Hand, Higbee District

07 - Mrs. Sarah Parks, Mecosta 

12 - George C. Mapletoft, Evart

18 - Mrs. O.M. Oleson 

19 - Clarence Rudolph Anderson, Colfax Township 

19 - Emmet Ezra Porter, Mecosta vicinity

20 - Mrs. Celia Dingman (In Lansing)

22 - Mrs. Nettie Richmond Hilderley 

24 - Mrs. Eva Roberts, Millbrook

29 - Mrs. Myrtle Smith Corey, Grant Township

31 - Mrs. W.J. Sioss 

31 - James Switzer, Paris



SEPTEMBER



02 - William Little, Stanwood

02 - James E. Danes, Colfax Township

03 - Emil Abrams, Mecosta 

04 - Mrs. Sarah John, Martiny Township (In Community Hospital

06 - Frank F. Davis

14 - Mrs. G. Stadfield, Wheatland Township 

15 - Mrs. B.F. Frederick, Clear Lake District 

15 - Benjamin F. Bosche, Paris vicinity 

21 - George W. Beck, Colfax Township

26 - Harry Ebert, Big Rapids Township

27 - Mrs. Lydia Blakely Ely



OCTOBER 



01 - Maxine Lutz, Barryton

06 - Martin Larson 

10 - Frederick Saorski

10 - James H. Maneke, Rodney vicinity 

17 - Harry Ladner

18 - Henry C. Vogg, Morley 

19 - George Ebbitt, Morley vicinity 

21 - J.V. Fairhead (In Hart) 

25 - Graham Switzer, Lakeview 

26 - David MacGregor

28 - Rudolph Haist, Hersey

29 - John Rehin, Mecosta 

31 - Mrs. Elizabeth Wilcox, Morton Township 



NOVEMBER



01 - Samuel Anderson, McGill District (In Morley)



02 - Mrs. M.S. Sherbyn, Millbrook

05 - Mrs. Jessie VanKeuren

12 - Mrs. Mabel Kelley Hagadone (In Grand Rapids)

16 - B.F. Frederick, Clear Lake District 

16 - Mrs. Truda Culbertson Freeman, Clear Lake vicinity 

17 - Mrs. Mae Keeler Stoddard, Evart

17 - Mrs. Sarah Hosmer Dewey (In Farmington)

24 - Mrs. Fred Bansier, Millbrook

26 - August Sano

27 - Mrs. L.C. LaClaire



DECEMBER



04 - Mrs. Myrtle Lane

05 - Mrs. Ruby C. Carruthers, McGill District 

07 - Mrs. Edward Hutchinson, Millbrook 

12 - Mrs. Lena Peterson, Grant Township

12 - Fritz Puffpaff, Remus

12 - Mrs. Eva J. Collison, Stanwood

13 - Charles G. Shust

16 - Christian Mehl

16 - George W. Fowler, Big Rapids Township

16 - Mrs. Gertrude Fleming Grant, Evart

21 - Mrs. William Erler

23 - Mary Louise Allen 

24 - Genevieve Mabon, MOrley District 

28 - Mrs. Cecil Tonkin



















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