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Kathryn Stringer
3/16/2002
A graveside service will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. for Kathryn Stringer, who died March 16. The service will be held at Leelanau Township Cemetery.
George W. Cowan
4/24/2002
Funeral services were held downstate Monday for Dearborn and Suttons Bay resident George W. Cowan, who died April 24. He was 82.
Mr. Cowan was a veteran of World War II. He formerly resided in Bay City and Clarkston.
Surviving are his son, Arthur (Kathleen); daughters Joann (Ronald) Groeneveld and Marjorie (Walter) Poszywak; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Margaret E. Powers
4/23/2002
A funeral Mass was held Tuesday for Margaret Elizabeth (Betty) Powers, who died April 23 at her Flushing home. She was 84.
Preceding her in death were her husband, William James; son William James Jr; and daughter, Nancy Louise.
Burial was in Bendle Cemetery. Donations may be made to the St. John Vianney School Band in her name and mailed to Rossell Funeral Home, P.O. Box 151, Flushing 48433.
Virginia W. Mitchell
3/16/2002
A service celebrating the life of Virginia Walker Mitchell, 87, who died March 16, will be held Monday, April 29 at the Leland Community Methodist Church.
The service will begin at 3 p.m.
William V. Hancock
4/15/2002
Memorial services will be held at a later date at Leland Community Methodist Church for lifelong Leland resident William V. Hancock, who died April 15 at Naples Community Hospital. He was 72.
Mr. Hancock in the son of Paul and Kathryn Hancock. A graduate of Hanover College, he was president for 37 years at Model Loan Services, a business which his father started in 1914. He was a Sergeant serving for the Army in the Korean Conflict.
Mr. Hancock was a member of Zionsville Presbyterian Church in Zionsville, Ind.; a lifetime member of Downtown Kiwanis Club of Indianapolis; a daughter, Sara Jane (James) Cavanaugh of Granger, Ind.; a sister, Anita Jones of Kalamazoo; and two grandchildren.
Burial was in Crown Hill Cemetery, Ohio, the son of David W. and Jenny (Bloom) Edwards. On March 10, 1943, he married Jeanne Anne Simon, who preceded him in death in 1983. On Aug. 17, 1985, he married Betty Jane Bailey, who survives.
Mr. Edwards was a retired tool-and-die maker who was a resident of northern Calif.; three sons, David E. of Detroit, Thomas (Sara) of Owosso and Vincent (Jill) of Escondido, Illinois, she married H. Edmund Peters, who survives.
Mrs. Peters was baptized and confirmed in Bethany Lutheran Church in Northport, and was valedictorian at Northport Public School.
Also surviving are seven children, Elizabeth Doerr, John (Charlene) Peters, Richard (Patricia) Peters, Dorothy (Terrance) Carpenter, Wilfred (Ann) Peters, Peter (Joann) Peters and Mary (James) Peters; her sister, Esther Guptill; four brothers, Novald Garthe, Randolph (Ruth) Garthe, Steiner (Sigwalda) Garthe and Harry (Betty) Garthe; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Elizabeth Carlson; and an infant sister, Inga Louise Garthe.
Interment was in Beechwood Cemetery in Leland. Memorials may be directed to Immanuel Lutheran Church.
Robert L. Joseph Sr.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Paul's Lutheran Ev. Church in Saginaw for Saginaw resident Robert L. Joseph Sr. He was 68.
Mr. Joseph was born in Frankfort on March 18, 1934, the son of Sam and Eleanor Joseph, and grew up in Empire. On July 7, 1973, in Grand Rapids, he married the former Noda Boyd, who survives.
Mr. Joseph worked for Grand Rapids Foam Rubber before retiring in 1997 and moving to Saginaw. He was a member of St. Paul's Ev. Lutheran Church.
Also surviving are a son, Robert Lee Joseph Jr. of Saginaw; a brother, B.J. (Rosie) Joseph of Traverse City; a sister, Theresa Barth of Duarte, Georgiann Pussehl, Pat Boyd and Nora Juergenmeyer; and brothers-in-law George (Betty) Boyd and Tom (Carlene) Boys. He was preceded in death by a brother, two sisters and a sister-in-law.
Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery Memorials may be made to the church or V.N.A. Hospice Partners in Caring.
Betty L. Rizor
3/29/2002
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at LaRue (Iowa. After holding several jobs, he enlisted in the Navy and was stationed in a communication's center in OH, and Dr. Andrew Blum of Newton, MA, and seven grandchildren, Monica and Ian Dechow, Hanna Beth, Emmi, and Matt Blum, and Peter and Thomas Blum. Donations may be made to the Sammons Cancer Center Research Fund, c/o BHCS Foundation, 3600 Gaston Ave. Suite 100, Dallas, TX 75246 or Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 810 7th Ave. NY, NY 10019.
