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The Herald Press - St. Joseph, MI
Thursday, 12 May 1960


         WITHERELL Rites Set
         
         Three Oaks, May 12 - Services for GERALD A. WITHERELL,
      44, of 1007 Pennoyer st., Grand Haven, will be held at
      2 o'clock Friday afternoon in the Kammeraad funeral home
      at 208 Franklin st., in that city. Burial will also take
      place there.
         MR. WITHERELL, the husband of the former MISS IZETTA
      DECKER of Three Oaks, died Monday night in the New England
      Deaconess hospital in Boston, Mass., where he had been a
      surgical patient for four weeks. He had been ill for two
      and one-half months.
         He was born May 18, 1915, in North Muskegon and was
      married on Sept. 26, 1936, in St. Joseph. He served in
      the U. S. Coast Guard for nine years, with three years of
      that time (1935-1937) having been spent in St. Joseph. For
      the past twelve years he had been a bus driver for the
      Greyhound bus line.
         He was a member of the First Methodist church; the F.
      and A. M. Lodge, No. 139, in Grand Haven; Corinthian
      Chapter, No. 84; a past patron of the Eastern Star Chapter,
      No. 245, and a past member of the Masonic Temple board.
         Area residents have responded to an appeal for blood
      donors to replace that used at the Boston hospital, and
      are still giving blood, by appointment, at the American
      Cancer Blood Bank at St. Mary's hospital in Grand Rapids.
         Surviving MR. WITHERELL, in addition to his widow, are
      a son, GERALD, Grand Haven; a daughter, MARY LOU, now a
      junior at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo; his
      mother, MRS. JOSEPHINE WITHERELL, West Spring Lake; two
      sisters, MRS. JOE SUSTERICH, Grand Haven,  and MRS.
      HERBERT BEGIN, Muskegon; and one brother, GEORGE WITHERELL,
      Milwaukee, Wis.
      
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