Category 1950-2000

Katherine F. Mullinax, 88, of St. Louis, died May 22, 1996, at the Gratiot County Community Hospital in Alma. Mrs. Mullinax, the daughter of John and Mary Sedlack, was born March 2, 1908 in Nebraska.  She married Floyd E. Coon… Continue Reading →

George W. Deeds, was born in Leaville Township, Oceana County, Mich., Jan 12, 1908 and died Oct. 5, 1952 at his home in Ithaca. After spending most of his childhood on a farm near Big Rapids, he moved with his… Continue Reading →

Barnhart, John Runkle, b. Sept. 17, 1881, Putnam County, Ohio; d. July 4, 1973, Gratiot County Hospital, Alma, Mich. He was a member of the Mt. Pleasant, Mich., church. Survivors are son, Everett, of Toledo, Ohio; stepsons Vernon Basinger of… Continue Reading →

Verne B. Bennett was born in Gratiot County, Mich. March 31, 1880. He was the son of the late Joseph and Alice Bennett. He was a life long resident of the community near Carson City. Mich. Those left to mourn… Continue Reading →

Mary Irene, daughter of Giles and Sarah Lovewell McKeon was born August 14, 1867 in Brant, Saginaw Co., Mich. and died April 21, 1951, at Alma, Mich. At sixteen she was left an orphan, and made her home with an… Continue Reading →

Cordelia Hankey (nee Stevenson) was born in Washington Twp., Gratiot Co., Mich,, July 15, 1879, and passed to her rest Sept. 23, 1951 at her home in Eureka, Mich. In 1907 she was married to Edward Hankey. Sister Hankey had… Continue Reading →

Howard Oscar Butler was born Jan. 29, 1887 three-miles east of Sumner, Mich. At twenty years of age he married Nettie Mae Bangs. They experienced conversion and hecame members of the Sumner SDA Church. Later Brother Butler became farm manager… Continue Reading →

Ervin Elberton Forquer was born in Isabella County, Mich., March 9, 1872, and died in Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, April 2, 1952. He spent his boyhood days in Gratiot County. He was married to Anna L. Harvey in Saginaw in… Continue Reading →

Minnie Elizabeth Rowland was born Apr. 22, 1872 in Gratiot Co.,—died Aug. 15, 1952. At the age of four years, she moved with her parents to Cedar Lake, Mich., where with them she embraced the Seventh-day Adventist faith, remaining faithful… Continue Reading →

Mary Nelson Collins, born January 24, 1864. in Arcada Township, Gratiot County, Michigan; died at Yucaipa, California, February 20, 1956. She was baptized at the age of sixteen, and most of her life was spent at Cedar Lake. Michigan. On… Continue Reading →