|
| |
Click on any menu icon or
underlined link to find out more
about a subject or individual.
Use the Search Our Site icon to find specific words or topics on the entire
website.
|
Obituaries in 1945
Hartford Michigan |
|
Click here to return to the to Obituary
Index
Please email the webmaster if you have obituaries of
people who have lived in Hartford Michigan, or was active
in the Hartford-Keeler community, at some time during their lives.
To find a specific obituary, use the
Search Our Site
feature, also located on the
left menu of every page. The Obituary section was started January 30,
2008 and current obituaries will be posted as they become available.
Obituaries are from the local newspapers, unless otherwise noted.
If you have an obituary notice (or learn of the passing away of
someone who lived in Hartford at one time) of a former Hartford resident from a
newspaper away from the Hartford area, please send it. Past obituaries
will be added as time permits. Death notices are also posted
in the HHS
graduate database.
Note:
if you have a good or different photo to insert with present or past
obituaries for the History of Hartford website and email
newsletters, please click
here to email them unedited directly to the webmaster.
If you don’t have a scanner, send photo by US Mail to Emma Thornburg
Sefcik, 59320 62nd St., Hartford MI 49057.
Many requests are made for obituary
notices and this is a good genealogical resource, as well as
providing obits to extended family members who may not have an
original. Searching previous year obituaries (mainly prior to
2003) requires a good deal of time. If you found this to be a valuable
resource and would like to be a sponsor toward keeping the
obituaries page updated, send donations to History of
Hartford Obituaries, Emma Sefcik, 59320 62nd St, Hartford MI
49057. Since the History of Hartford website is a voluntary
effort, your contribution is much appreciated.
Email the webmaster
with any correction of obvious errors that may have
occurred in the original newspaper obit.
Click here for local library
resources.
|
|
Gene Ansteth Dies at Nearby Rail Crossing
Fast Freight Hits Car; Many Schoolmates Attend Funeral Rites.
Thomas
Eugene (Gene) Ansteth, popular Hartford high school sophomore
and 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ansteth, 22 W.
Shepherd, was killed Saturday [November 3, 1945] when a car he
was driving was struck by a Pere-Marquette freight train at a
grade crossing at Stoughton’s corners.
The accident occurred a 12:55
p.m. in what Mary E. Thomas, who lives near the crossing and
witnessed the accident, told state police was a blinding
snowstorm.
TRAIN TRAVELING FAST
Engineer
Fred Nowland, Grand Rapids, told state police of the Paw Paw
post that the train, No 52, bound for Chicago, was traveling
40 to 45 mile and hour when it struck the car. No one was
held and no inquest was ordered. The youth was returning to
Hartford after visiting the home of Carleton Winch, a
classmate. He was driving his father’s car.
The car was smashed
into a number of pieces which were scattered along the track
for about 1,500 feet. The victim’s body was thrown out of the
car by the impact and found about 100 feet from the track. He
died instantly.
Funeral
services were held at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Immaculate Conception
Catholic church, following rosary prayers at the Ansteth home
at 8 p.m. Monday. The Rev. Fr. Julius Bona officiated at the
services and burial was at Maple Hill cemetery.
STUDENTS ATTEND
The high
school football team and sophomore class, of which Gene was a
member, attended the services in a body. Pallbearers were
Maurice Miller, Larry Blyly, Carleton Winch, Leo J. Latus,
Richard Frontczak and Gordon Mackintosh, all schoolmates.
Born Dec. 11, 1929, Gene had
lived at Hartford all his life. He is survived by his parents
and an older brother, Cleo, who was graduated from Hartford
high school last year and now is studying music at Chicago
while awaiting a call to military service.
Gene was president of
his high school class last year. This fall he was chosen by
popular vote of all the boys in the high school as a
representative on the community education council.
Playing both basketball and
football, he won a backfield berth on the varsity football
squad this year and with an excellent passing performance in
the Cassopolis and Paw Paw games this year was headed for a
regular position on next year’s team.
PLAYED SOLO CLARINET
He played both the clarinet
and saxophone and had been a member of the high school band
since he was in the sixth grade. For the last two years, he
had held the solo chair in the clarinet section. In the last school year he
played in his brother’s dance orchestra, which was reorganized
this year under leadership of Larry Blyly and Gene.
Transcribed from original
Hartford Day Spring article.
|
Edward M. Zuver –
funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday for Edgar M.
Zuver, 74, veteran Hartford undertaker.
Mr. Zuver, who had been in the undertaking business
here for 42 years, had been living at Hotel Vincent, Benton
Harbor. He was taken ill there at 4 a.m. Monday. Removed to
St. Joseph sanitarium, he died [March 5, 1945] a short time
later.
Born at Pioneer, Ohio., April 6, 1870, Mr. Zuver was
the son of J. L. and Mathilda Zuver. When he was a young boy
his family moved to Montecalm county, Mich., later to Grand
Traverse county, and then to Berrien county. Mr. Zuver
worked with his father at Coloma. When he came to Hartford 42
years ago, he entered the employ of Charles Myers. For the
last 2 years, Mr. Zuver had been associated with J. L. Calvin
in the Zuver Calvin Funeral Home.
Surviving are his wife, Grace, a sister, Mrs. Edith
Calvin, Covert, and several nieces and nephews.
Services were conducted at the Zuver and Calvin chapel by the
Rev. Norman Clapp and the Rev. Lester Clough. Burial was in
Maple Hill cemetery.
The Hartford Day Spring, Thursday, March 8, 1945,
Edward’s previous wife,
Helen,
passed away in 1937.
|
| ▲back to top |
|
©