Pearls In Our Past   

 



 


 





Home

Postcard to You

Welcome Home

Business

Cemeteries

Community Folk
Special Honors
Special Recognitions

Community Services
Fire Department

Churches

Famous Folk & Heroes

Government

Historic Events

Historic Homes

Maps – Stats – Aerial Photos

Militaryphotos, letters &
histories – Rev. War to present

Military Submit Information

Misc. History

Obituaries

Potawatomi

Scenic – Prints available

Schools-Hartford & Keeler
• Athletics here
• Band here
• HHS graduate database here
• Reunion News here

• Class Composites here
• Misc. Class Photos here
• Memorable Teachers-Staff here

Social

Hartford Floats
Hartford Royalty
Misc.

Tragedy

Transcripts
§ Charles A. Spaulding
A History of Hartford
153 pg transcript

§ Katherine Minshall Early History of Hartford and Lawrence 12 pgs.
§ Eli Fayette Ruggles Recollections of A Busy Life circa 1904

Precious Pearls

Site Credits

Who are they?

Recollections and Jottings

Freq. Asked Questions

Email the Webmaster
 

Search Our Site

Links of interest
 


Enter your name and email address below to receive email newsletter and notification of
major changes to the site.
Use TAB key to move to next box. ALL entries are required.
* required fields

*
Your First AND Last name
(required)

*
Current email address
Show entire email address,
including .com, .net, etc.
(required)

*
Your connection to Hartford?
ex: grad, resident, former resident, summer visitor, etc.
(required)

If HHS student-grad, class yr?


Last name during school at Hartford


Where do you currently reside?


Select email newsletter(s):
History of Hartford newsletter
Local Events newsletter

Register Remove
(Left-click your mouse on
the appropriate box to select.)
(required)


 

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.

      
       
                           Obituar
ies in 1962
                                                           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 community, at some time during their lives. To find a specific obituary, use the  Search Our Site  feature 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 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 would be a good genealogical resource, as well as providing obits to extended family members who may not have an original.  Searching for obituaries from previous years (mainly prior to 2003) requires a good deal of time.  If you have 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 errors that may have occurred in the original newspaper obit.

Click here for local library resources.
 

Dr. Leo F. Latus, an osteopath here for 35 years and twice mayor of Hartford, died Saturday [October 27, 1962] noon at his home on E. Main St.  He had been in ill health for several years.
     Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Immaculate Conception church, with the Rev. Fr. Robert Stockwell officiating. The rosary was said at 8 p.m. Monday at the Calvin chapel.  Burial was in Maple Hill cemetery.
     Dr. Latus was born at Chicago [May 10, 1900], the youngest of 13 children.  The family moved to a farm near Rush lake when he was two years old.  He was graduated from Hartford high school in 1918 and from Chicago College of Osteopath in 1925. Illness forced him to retire from practice in 1960.
     He married Rosaline Boland here on Sept. 10,1927.
     It was while Dr. Latus was serving as mayor the first time that Hartford’s sewer system was built during the depression. He again served as mayor in the late 1940’s, compiling a total of 12 years in that post. He also had served on the Village council and the Board of Education.
     Dr. Latus was a member of Immaculate Conception church, the Holy Name society, the Knights of Columbus at Watervliet, the Elks lodge at Benton Harbor and belonged to national, state, and regional osteopathic societies.
     Surviving besides his wife are four sons, Thomas, also an osteopath of Muskegon, Peter of Three Rivers and Leo J. and Robert; three daughters, Mary Ellen Learner of Cuyahoga Falls Oh., Frances DelPizzo of Louisville Colo., and Alive; a sister Mrs. John P. Ryan, and 23 grandchildren..
Carl D. Olds, 68, of Lawrence, owner of the Olds grocery store in Hartford for many years, died Friday [July 6, 1962] in Bronson hospital, Kalamazoo.
     Mr. Olds was born Aug. 10, 1893, in Hartford, the son of Clarence and Carrie Olds.  He married the former Katherine Kinnine, June 6, 1915.
     Survivors include his widow; two sons, Robert of North Muskegon and Tom of Hartford; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Louise Marcopulos of Grosse Point; a sister, Mrs. Louise Wilkinson of Paw Paw; and seven grandchildren.
     Requiem high Mass will be celebrated Monday at 10 a.m. in the Immaculate Conception Catholic church of Hartford, of which he was a member. The Rev. Fr. Francis Bowen, pastor, will serve as celebrant.
     Burien will be in Maple Hill cemetery.
     The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Calvin funeral home here.

 
Return to top

Information for this web site was gathered from personal interviews, newspaper articles, scrapbooks, personal photo albums, and other documented materials - many available to the public at the Hartford Public Library or Van Buren County Historical Museum.  Please report any typographical errors, updated information, or incorrectly stated information to the webmaster for correction.  Reprinting for personal and instructional purposes is permitted, however, unauthorized commercial reprinting of this information or unauthorized linking to photos-pictures on this site is strictly prohibited without written permission from the webmaster. 



Pass the word on to your friends and family about this site
It's easy...right click on this icon,
COPY
and PASTE it into an email to them.

Click on the icon to go directly to the website.
HartfordHistory Icon - Hartford MI

Pearls In Our Past - Hartford Michigan
© 
A Pictorial History of Hartford Michigan
Emma Thornburg Sefcik
Webmaster
Competent Secretarial Service
History of Hartford Michigan
Copyright © 2000 - All rights reserved.


Revised: March 23, 2009