This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Day, Walsh, Day, Zachos Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QFB.2ACE/1577 Message Board Post: Earl C. Day, age 84, of Hastings, passed away Friday, May 13, 2005 at his home. His final months were spent in the loving care of his wife, Martha, and his family, along with the Barry Community Hospice. The son of Sidney and Dorothy (Walsh) Day, Earl was born on May 10, 1921 in the Detroit area. He graduated from MacKenzie High School and immediately after Pearl Harbor, enlisted serving in the United States Navy until his honorable discharge in December 1945. He then pursued his career through an apprenticeship as a theatrical electrician, later working in television and retired from WJBK TV2 in Detroit in 1987. He moved to the Hastings area in 1989. Earl was a life-member of the Plymouth Elks 1780, a 32nd Degree Mason, member VFW and Hastings First Presbyterian Church. He will always by lovingly remembered by his wife, Martha, whom he married June 17, 1950. His daughters Ginger Day, Carol (Denny) Zachos; and grandsons, Paul, Scott, Brian and Jeff. Funeral services! were held Sunday, May 15, 2005 at the Wren Funeral Home in Hastings with Rev. Dr. C. Jeffrey Garrison officiating and funeral services were held Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at the John N. Santeiu and Sons Funeral Home in Garden City, with Rev. H. Wilkes O'Brien, Jr. Officiating. Burial at Mt. Hope Memorial Gardens in Livonia. Memorial contributions may be made to Barry Community Hospice. Arrangements were made by Wren Funeral Home of Hastings and John N. Santeiu and Sons Funeral Home in Garden City. (The Hastings "Reminder" - Tuesday, May 17, 2005) Transcriber has no family connection