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Lansing State Journal
Saturday, 20 April 1929

         AGED MAN, WIFE DIE SAME NIGHT
         
         HENRY W. BLISS, 94, Succumbs at St. Johns
         MRS. BLISS at Gunnisonville
         
         Special to the State Journal:
         
         St. Johns, April 20 - HENRY W. BLISS, 94, and his
       wife, MARY, 84, residents of Riley township, both
       died Thursday night. MRS. BLISS died at the home of
       the grandson, ALLIE STANTON, in Gunnisonville at
       6 o'clock, and MR. BLISS died at the St. Johns Mem-
       orial hospital at 9 o'clock.
         Double funeral services will be held at the Osgood
       Funeral home in St. Johns Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock
       with Rev. Julia Walton, of Jackson, officiating. MRS.
       BLISS will be buried in Alma and MR. BLISS in the 
       Riley cemetery.
         MR. BLISS, an early pioneer resident of the vicinity,
       was born in Bennington, Vt., and moved to Riley in
       1857.  In 1858 he was married to CLARISSA WILSON who
       died in 1916. In 1917 he was married to MRS. MARY
       BIRD. Until last fall the aged couple lived on a 
       200 acre farm in Riley township.
       
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