Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dehn, Cora A. (Richards) 1951 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net January 16, 2010, 1:09 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 13 Sep 1951 Mrs. Cora Dehn, 47, wife of Sylvester Dehn, Belding city postmaster, was found dead in bed on a sleeping porch at 7 a.m. Thursday at the Dehn home at 216 West Liberty street. Coroner Wallace H. Jackson of Ionia said Mrs. Dehn appeared to have died from self administered medicine. He ordered an autopsy to be performed at the Fitzjohn funeral home at Belding Thursday afternoon by Dr. C. Allen Payne, Blodgett Memorial hospital pathologist. Coroner Jackson said Mrs. Dehn had been ill for several years, especially since the death of her 14-year-old son several years ago following an operation. Jackson said Mrs. Dehn appeared to have been dead from four to six hours. She was alive at 1 a.m., her husband said. He was up with her until then as she had not been feeling well. Surviving is the husband Sylvester; two daughters, Mrs. Herbert Jones of Grand Rapids and Kathryn at home, and a son Sylvester, jr., at home; a sister Mrs. Stanley Green of DeWitt, and a brother Clyde Richards of Big Rapids and two grandchildren. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/d/dehn2586nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb