Harold J. Deering
Dec 28, 2015
Harold J. "Shorty" Deering, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, passed away Monday, December 28, 2015 after a long battle with diabetes. Harold was born May 3rd, 1934, the youngest of eight siblings. He graduated from Pigeon High School in 1951 and started working two years later with Wallace & Morley Company in the grain elevator business. After 30 years advancing...
Allen E. Spencer
Dec 26, 2015
Allen E. Spencer of Deford, age 90, passed away on Saturday, December 26, 2015 at his home, following a short illness. He was born April 23, 1925 in Gilford, the son of the late Frank & Hazel (Short) Spencer. Allen enlisted in the U.S. Army July 13, 1943 and served his country for the following three years. He was...
Joe D. Truemner
Dec 26, 2015
Joe Delmar Truemner, 74 of Pigeon, passed away Saturday, December 26, 2015 at his home. He was born February 28, 1941 in Winsor Township, son of Delmar J. and Edna B. (Haag) Truemner, and graduated from Pigeon High School in 1959. He received his Bachelors degree from Central Michigan University in 1963, and his Masters degree in 1969. Joe taught...
Dilles Raymond Walker
Dec 25, 2015
Dilles Raymond Walker, age 77, passed away suddenly at his Gladwin home on Christmas Day 2015. Dilles was born June 1, 1938 in Cass City, the son of the late Dilles Wellington & Lilah (Loomis) Walker. He was the third in his family to be given the name Dilles, and two generations since have carried on the name. Dilles...
Rosamae Krohn
Dec 24, 2015
RosaMae Krohn age 89, of Elkton died Thursday evening, December 24, at McLaren, Bay Region following a heart attack. She was born August 30, 1926 in West Plains, Missouri to the late William and Edna (Johns) Proffitt. On August 13, 1955, she was united in marriage to William R. Krohn in West Plains, MO. They made their home on...
Larry A. Phillips
Dec 21, 2015
Larry A. Phillips of Caro, age 76, passed away suddenly on Monday, December 21, 2015 at his home. He was born September 22, 1939 in Brighton, the son of the late Aubrey and Lydia Lebith (Ball) Phillips. Larry graduated from Utica High School and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving for the following two years. He was united...
Sandy J. Zeitler
Dec 21, 2015
Sandra Jean (Seley) Zeitler went to be with her Lord on December 21, 2015 at her winter home in Port Charlotte, FL while under hospice care. She was born on July 5, 1940 in Bad Axe to late Leonard and Ermythe (Ackerman) Seley. Sandy grew up on a farm at the south limits of Elkton and was a 1958...
Clayton W Bursick
Dec 21, 2015
Clayton W. Bursick age 51 of Sebewaing, died Monday morning, December 21, at Huron Medical Center, Bad Axe following a long battle with health problems. He was born November 23, 1964 in Pigeon to the late Jack and Jeanette (Haag) Bursick. After high school, Sebewaing, Class of ’82, he had several different jobs before he began working at Michigan...
William "Bill" Mierendorff
Dec 21, 2015
William C. C. “Bill” Mierendorff age 81, of Bad Axe formerly of Elkton, died Monday morning, December 21, at McLaren Hospital, Bay Region while under hospice care with his family by his side. He was born September 14, 1934 in Port Huron to the late William and Helen (Barber) Mierendorff. He served his country in the US Army and...
Frank A. Mitchell
Dec 18, 2015
Frank A. Mitchell of Caro, age 58, passed away on Friday, December 18, 2015 in Corbin, Kentucky while visiting family. Frank was born March 1, 1957 in Caro, the son of the late Frank William & Lila Alma (Wilton) Mitchell. He was a "Jack of All Trades" that could fix practically anything. He worked in small engine repair, lawn...
Donald J. Kothe
Dec 18, 2015
Donald J. Kothe, 88, of Sebewaing, passed away on December 18, 2015, at Bay Medical Care Facility in Essexville. Don was born in Sebewaing on April 20, 1927, the youngest of nine children born to Fred and Nellie (Reed) Kothe. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1945, during his senior year in high school at the age of 17....
Kurt William Anderson
Dec 18, 2015
Kurt W. Anderson, 56, of Caseville, died Friday, December 18, 2015 at Courtney Manor in Bad Axe of complications from multiple sclerosis. Kurt was born January 6, 1959 in Pigeon to Bruce and Gail (Ricker) Anderson. He graduated from Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker High School in 1977. A proud MSU alumni (the entire family are MSU graduates), he received a...
Lowell S. Brown
Dec 18, 2015
Lowell Sanford Brown I, 78 of Caseville and Bay Port, passed away Friday, December 18, 2015 at McLaren Bay Regional Hospital in Bay City. Born at the Brown Family home in Fairhaven Township on July 28, 1937, he was the son of Sanford A. and Mildred M. (Harder) Brown, and was a 1955 Bay Port High School graduate. He and...
Evelyn P. Apple
Dec 17, 2015
Evelyn P. Apple of Caro, age 92, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 17, 2015 at Vadavilla Adult Foster Care Home in Unionville, following a lingering illness. She was born June 6, 1923 in Liberty, South Carolina, the daughter of the late Junius and Nellie (Smith) Pressley. The former Evelyn Pressley was united in marriage with Herman Apple on...
Loretta Lucille Blakely
Dec 16, 2015
Loretta Lucille (Nicholson) Blakely, age 94, passed away on December 16, 2015, at The Carriage House of Bay City. Lucille was born on September 20, 1921, in Lake Odessa, Michigan, daughter of the late Phoebe and Leon Nicholson. Lucille married the late Rev. Harold Blakely on February 2, 1941, in Wauseon, Ohio. They met at church where Harold taught her...
Judith Kay Titus
Dec 15, 2015
Judith Kay Titus of Caro, age 75, passed away on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at her home, following a lingering illness. She was born May 17, 1940 in Caro, the daughter of the late Donald and Ellen (Kemp) Montei. Judy was a 1958 graduate of Caro High School, and went on to Fort Wayne Bible College, graduating with a...
Fred John Matt
Dec 13, 2015
Fred John Matt of Unionville, age 84, passed away on Sunday, December 13, 2015 at Medilodge of Cass City. He was born November 30, 1931 at the family home in Columbia Township, the son of the late John and Marie (Stingle) Matt, and was a lifelong Columbia Township resident and self-employed farmer. Fred graduated from the Abke Country School...
Ronald B. Ackerman
Dec 11, 2015
Ronald B. Ackerman, age 86, of Unionville, passed away Friday, December 11, 2015, at McLaren Bay Region. Ronald was born June 12, 1929, in Detroit, MI. Son of the late Harold and Eva (Carpeaux) Ackerman. On October 7, 1950, he married Mary (Krause) Ackerman. She preceded him in death on November 24, 1984. He then married Lenore (Alderman) Ackerman on...
Arline Clara Mckay
Dec 10, 2015
Arline Clara McKay, 95, of Unionville, died unexpectedly at her home on December 10, 2015. Arline was born at her parents' home on the shore of Saginaw Bay near Unionville on May 27, 1920. Her parents were Clare and Manila (Moore) Thomas, a commercial fishing family. Arline was their first child, and four sisters and two brothers would follow. She...
Steven L Craig
Dec 7, 2015
Steven L. Craig age 64, of Colfax Twp near Elkton, left this earth suddenly, to be with his mother and the Lord in Heaven. He had suffered a stroke in November and was moved to the medical care facility for therapy but was never to recover. He was born March 13, 1951 in Bad Axe to Glenn Craig and...
