Kenneth Goyings
Feb 26, 2008
Kenneth E. Goyings, age 92 of White Cloud, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 in the same home he was born. Ken was born on February 6, 1916 to Ford and Eva (Patterson) Goyings at the family home in White Cloud and attended and graduated from White Cloud High School in 1934. Ken married Verna Paulsen on...
Letha Pearl Wilkinson
Feb 25, 2008
Letha Pearl Wilkinson, age 86 of Bitely, passed away Monday, February 25, 2008 at her home. Letha was born on October 30, 1921 in Troy Township to Fred and Elma (Grant) Peterson and later married Marshall Wilkinson on July 8, 1944 in Baldwin. Marshall preceded her in death on March 1, 1995. Letha has been a lifelong resident of...
George Phillips
Feb 24, 2008
George A. Phillips, age 73 of Hesperia, passed away Sunday, February 24, 2008 at the Transitional Health Services in Fremont. George was born on March 27, 1934 in Ludington to William E. and Marie (Wells) Phillips and later married Alta Maxine Hodges in 1957 in Angola, Indiana. George had been a brick maker and truck driver in Ludington prior...
Frank Opal
Feb 24, 2008
Frank L. Opal, age 80 of White Cloud, passed away Sunday, February 24, 2008 at the Transitional Health Services in Fremont. Frank was born on April 15, 1927 in Hamtramck, Michigan to Frank George and Augusta (Locke) Opelwski. Frank has been a longtime resident of the White Cloud area where he had been a home repairman for the Newaygo...
Karen Thoma
Feb 23, 2008
Karen Thoma, age 58 of Fremont, formerly of Chicago, passed away Saturday, February 23, 2008 at the Transitional Health Services in Fremont. Karen was born on November 20, 1949 in Cook County, Illinois to Glen and (Mildred) Hembree Thoma. Karen lived most of her life in the Chicago area and moved to the West Michigan area 2 years ago....
Myrtle Aslakson
Feb 19, 2008
Myrtle I. Aslakson, age 87 of Holton, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008 at the Spectrum Health Blodgett Campus in Grand Rapids. Myrtle was born on Jan. 19, 1921 in White Cloud to Charles and Gertie (Stavinga) Anderson and later married Walter Aslakson on May 9, 1945 in White Cloud. Walter preceded her in death on Dec. 10, 2003....
James "N8Acl" Wilkinson
Feb 18, 2008
James O. Wilkinson, N8ACL, age 69 of Fremont, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, February 18, 2008 at his home. Jim was born on June 22, 1938 in Fremont to Charles and Evelyn (Arendsen) Wilkinson and has been a lifelong resident of the area. Jim married Nancy Baird on December 8, 1973 in Fremont and was a member of the...
Stanley Joseph Bradley
Feb 16, 2008
Stanley Joseph Bradley, age 53 of Bridgeton and Grant, passed away Saturday, February 16, 2008 at his home. Stan was born on July 16, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Robert William and Margaret Joyce (Grant) Bradley and later married Kathleen Moebius on May 9, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois. Stan has been a resident of the area for the past...
Maria Giovanna Stratton
Feb 16, 2008
Maria Giovanna (Filippis) Stratton, age 90 of Lakeview, formerly of Fremont, a loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend, passed away peacefully on February 16, 2008 in Lakeview, Michigan. Maria was born on December 2, 1917 in Conflenti, Italy to Nicola and Caterina (Paolo) Filippis and came to the United States as a teenager from Italy where she made...
Frank Richard Sondeen
Feb 15, 2008
Frank Richard Sondeen, age 86, passed away Friday, February 15, 2008 in Fremont. Frank was born on October 16, 1921 in Muskegon Heights to Gustave Theodore and Ruth Marion (Danford) Sondeen and graduated from Whitehall High School in 1939. He later attended the University of Michigan Business School where he received an MBA in Marketing in 1948. He married...
Bob Neumann
Feb 15, 2008
Bob Neumann, age 69, of White Cloud passed away at home on Friday, February 15, 2008, with his family by his side. He was born on June 8, 1938, in Detroit to George and Elmira (Kraut) Neumann and served in the United States Army. He married Patricia Ann Sliwinski on July 20, 1957, in Detroit and went on to...
Charlene Brown
Feb 15, 2008
Charlene M. Brown, age 77 of Brohman, formerly of White Cloud and Grand Rapids, passed away Friday, February 15, 2008 at the Newaygo Medical Care Facility in Fremont. Charlene was born on June 1, 1930 in Grand Rapids to Herman W. and Pauline Marie (Joslin) Gray and later married Darwin Brown on July 3, 1971 in Grand Rapids. Darwin...
Anna Belle Enell
Feb 13, 2008
Anna Belle Enell, age 79 of Fremont, formerly of Kent City and Muskegon, passed away Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at the Transitional Health Services in Fremont. Anna Belle was born on July 23, 1928 in Grand Rapids to Martin and Louise (DeHaan) Barnes and married Lester Bud Enell on January 4, 1947 in Muskegon. Bud preceded her in death...
Larry Strayer
Feb 11, 2008
Larry E. Strayer, age 51 of Bridgeton, passed away Monday, February 11, 2008 at the Gerber Memorial Health Services in Fremont surrounded by his family. Larry was a devoted husband and loving father and was better known to his grandchildren as papa. Larry was born on April 15, 1956 in Fremont to Carl E. and Grace A. (Hinton) Strayer....
Franklin Burns
Feb 11, 2008
Franklin J. Frank Burns, age 74 of White Cloud, passed away Monday, February 11, 2008 at his home. Frank was born on May 18, 1933 to Steve and Alice Burns and moved to the White Cloud area in 1965. Frank had been a truck driver and a carpenter, millwright, welder, pile driver with the Local 335 Building Trades Division...
Catherine Dobe
Feb 10, 2008
Catherine G. Dobe, age 93 of Holton, passed away Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 at the Heartland of Whitehall Nursing Home. Catherine was born on Jan. 26, 1915 in Fremont to Eric and Naomi Catherine (Anderson) Warner and later married Elwin Dobe on Sept. 3, 1938 in Newaygo. Elwin preceded her in death on June 21, 2000. Catherine had been...
James Towne
Feb 5, 2008
James K. Towne, age 72 of Newaygo, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at his home. Jim was born on November 21, 1935 in Newaygo to Leon and Marguerite (Shick) Towne and later married Karen Millard on March 15, 1958 in Newaygo. Jim joined the United States Army where he was stationed in Germany. Jim started work...
Nancy West
Feb 1, 2008
Nancy K. West, age 69 of Bitely and formerly of Greenville, passed away Friday, February 1, 2008 at the Eaton Community Hospice in Charlotte, Michigan. Nancy was born on January 29, 1939 in Big Rapids and was raised by Leo J. and Florence M. (Cox) Parker. Nancy grew up in the Lansing area and later started work as a...
Edith Smith
Feb 1, 2008
Edith L. Smith, age 87 of Holton, passed away Friday at the Newaygo Medical Care Facility in Fremont. Edith was born on June 14, 1920 in Lake City, MI and later married Frank Smith on March 31, 1939 in White Cloud. Frank preceded her in death on Oct. 31, 2001. Edith had worked as a dietician at Gerber Hospital...
Ruth Evelyn Woodruff
Jan 29, 2008
Ruth Evelyn Woodruff, age 82, passed away at Heartland Health Care Center in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, January 29, 2008. She was born on March 24, 1925, in Detroit to John and Anna (Slaggard) Blunden and married Charles Woodruff on May 29, 1943, in Detroit. Ruth was currently a member of the United Methodist Church in Troy, Michigan. Ruth...
