Vicki Ann Arbogast
Nov 10, 2022
Vicki Ann Arbogast, age 72, of Hesperia went home to be with her Savior on Thursday, November 10, 2022, at home. Vicki was born on September 6, 1950, in Muskegon to Harry and Katherine Laurel (Mendham) Tanner Jr. and had attended the Church of the Living Christ in Fremont. She was well known for her sewing, especially her quilts and...
Esther Ann Van Etten
Nov 5, 2022
Esther Ann Van Etten, age 76 of White Cloud, passed away on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at the Corewell Health Butterworth following a short illness. Esther was born on September 17, 1946 in Fremont to Frank and Evelyn (Shephard) Roe and graduated from White Cloud High School in 1965. Esther married Donald Van Etten on December 23, 1966 in Grand...
Katherine "Kay" C. Caniff
Nov 4, 2022
Katherine C. "Kay" Caniff, age 98 of White Cloud, passed away Friday, November 4, 2022 at Regency of Fremont. Kay was born on February 8, 1924 in Grand Rapids to Ralph and Elizabeth (Weaver) Kendall and later married Paul Caniff Jr. on April 17, 1951 in Indiana. Paul preceded her in death on January 20, 2003. Katherine had worked as...
Devin A. Sartwell
Nov 3, 2022
Devin A. Sartwell, age 41 of Hesperia, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, November 3, 2022 at his home. Devin was born on February 20, 1981 in Fremont to Barry and Vicky (Hunt) Sartwell and graduated from Hesperia High School in 2000. Devin moved to Anchorage, Alaska in 2006 where he had been a meat cutter at Indian Valley Meats for...
Donald "Don" L. Heaven
Nov 2, 2022
Donald L. "Don" Heaven, age 80 of Hesperia, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at Green Acres of Fremont. Don was born on April 4, 1942 in Grand Rapids to Milton and Ethelyn (Wride) Heaven. Don married Mary Kay Scripps on September 15, 1962 in Cascade and later moved to the Hesperia area from the Ada/Cascade area and...
Violet "Vi" H. Dunbar Snider
Nov 2, 2022
Violet "Vi" H. Dunbar Snider, age 90, of Twin Lake passed away on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at Twin Lake Assisted Living. Vi was born on May 11, 1932, in Muskegon to LeRoy Earl and Alice (Gleasor) Dunbar and had worked in the house keeping department at the Newaygo County Medical Care Facility for over 17 years. She had been...
Randy Joe Johnson
Oct 30, 2022
Randy Joe Johnson, age 69 of Holton, formerly of Los Angeles California and Galena, Missouri, passed away Sunday, October 30, 2022 at his home in Holton. Randy was born on February 7, 1953 in Fremont to Homer and Alice I. (Ransom) Johnson and moved to California at the age of 17. Randy started his own business, Gold Carriage Tour and...
Sandra V. Jones
Oct 29, 2022
Sandra Valeta Jones, age 42 of White Cloud, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, October 29, 2022 at her home. Sandra was born on February 12, 1980 at KI Sawyer Air Force Base in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and graduated from White Cloud High School in 1998. Sandra joined the United States Navy after graduation where she served aboard the...
Gene "Butch" A. Thumser
Oct 29, 2022
Gene "Butch" A. Thumser, age 67 of Fremont, passed away Saturday, October 29, 2022 at his home. Butch was born on October 7, 1955 in Fremont to Louis E. and Barbara J. (Castle) Thumser and graduated from Fremont High School in 1973. Butch has been a longtime resident of the area where he worked at Sealed Power in Muskegon for...
Julie Ann Austin
Oct 29, 2022
Julie Ann Austin, age 65, of Twin Lake passed away on Saturday, October 29, 2022, at home with her family by her side. Julie was born on November 12, 1956, in Fremont to Edward Albert and Joan Annette (Sorenson) Dagen and later married Ned Austin on November 5, 1994, in Muskegon. Julie enjoyed board games, camping, and time with her...
Mary Ellen Brown
Oct 26, 2022
Mary Ellen Brown (Buttleman), age 59, passed away peacefully in her home on October 26, 2022, surrounded by her close family. She was born November 10, 1962, in Fremont, MI to Jack and Ellen (Getz) Buttleman. Mary graduated from White Cloud High School in 1980. Mary was a much-loved mother of Dawn and Scott Califf, and Allen and Tammy Brown....
Larry Richard Anderson
Oct 25, 2022
Larry Richard Anderson, age 79, of Newaygo passed away on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, at the Newaygo County Compassion Home in Fremont. Larry was born on March 22, 1943, in Big Rapids to August Sylvester "Gus" and Alice Jane (Vliet) Anderson and married Artemisia Barrow Haggin on June 22, 1963. After graduating high school from Big Rapids in 1961, Larry...
Carol Sue Maring
Oct 22, 2022
Carol Sue Maring, age 75, of Fremont was called home to be with our Lord and Savior on Saturday, October 22, 2022, at Trinity Health Hospital in Muskegon. Carol was born on December 16, 1946, in Beckley, West Virginia, to Farley and Lucile (Bearfield) Hudson. After moving to the Hudsonville area Carol met her future husband Thomas Maring. They married...
Joan L. Johnson
Oct 21, 2022
Joan L. Johnson, age 90 of Monument, Colorado, formerly of White Cloud, passed away Friday, October 21, 2022 at her home in Monument, Colorado. Joan was born on November 2, 1931 in Fremont to Herbert O. and Alvina (Milarch) Eggerstedt and graduated from Scottville High School. Joan met and married her true love, Gene E. Johnson, and they were married...
Rose Ley Anderson
Oct 19, 2022
Rose Ley Anderson, age 59, of Hesperia passed away on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at the Newaygo County Compassion Home in Fremont. Rose was born on July 13, 1963, in Muskegon to Morris William and Lois Louise (Scarbough) English and married Jon Macara Anderson on May 17, 2002, in White Cloud. Rose had worked several jobs in the area but...
Patricia Ann Miller
Oct 18, 2022
Patricia Ann Miller, age 87 of Blue Lake Township, passed away on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at her home. Patricia was born on March 16, 1935 in Traverse City, Michigan to William and Gladys (Lanham) Strahan and grew up in the Traverse City area. Patricia later attended Layton School of the Arts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she became a lifelong...
Laura "Lori" Jean Thompson
Oct 18, 2022
Laura "Lori" Jean Thompson, age 73 of Hesperia, passed away Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at the Newaygo Medical Care Facility in Fremont. Lori was born on October 26, 1948 in Fremont to Gerald J. and Crystal (Johnson) Booher and graduated from Hesperia High School. Laura has been a lifelong resident of the Hesperia area and married Raymond C. Thompson on...
Bonnie J. (Eitniear-Robinson) Arvizu
Oct 17, 2022
Bonnie J. (Eitniear-Robinson) Arvizu, age 80 of Hesperia, passed away Monday, October 17, 2022 at her daughter's home in Hesperia. Bonnie was born on December 9, 1941 in Hesperia to Frank and Edith (Webster) Eitniear and graduated from Hesperia High School. Bonnie later married Isidro Arvizu. Bonnie had been a homemaker and enjoyed baking and making bread but especially treasured...
Dr. Norman L. Pedelty
Oct 8, 2022
Dr. Norman L. Pedelty, age 95 of Newaygo, passed away Saturday, October 8, 2022. Norman had been a family practice physician in Fremont for many years and served in the United States Army as a doctor in the Army of Occupational Forces in Germany during the Korean War. Norman is survived by his wife, Dr. Alicia A. Pedelty and his...
Gail John Tatrow
Oct 8, 2022
Gail John Tatrow, age 85 of Fremont, passed away peacefully at his home on Saturday, October 8, 2022. Gail was born on June 19, 1937 in Garden, Michigan to Andrew and Della (Farley) Tatrow and later met and married Phyllis C. Swanson on November 3, 1962 in Muskegon. Phyllis preceded him in death on November 14, 2021. Gail has been...
