This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Marsh Lange Skalski DeNoble Martens Whitfield Finnerud Hansen Swetnam Wahaj Bankston Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZGB.2ACE/347 Message Board Post: Bud Erling Lange Funeral services for Bud Erling Lange, 73, Grand Rapids, will be Monday, May 1995, at 10 a.m. at Community Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Becky Sherwood will officiate. Burial will be in Harris Cemetery, Harris Township. He died Wednesday, May 10, at St. Mary’s Medical Center, Duluth, MN. Born May 26, 1921 in Grand Rapids, he was a lifelong resident of the Grand Rapids area. He attended schools in the Greenway School District, graduating as valedictorian of the Greenway High School Class of 1939. He then served in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was an Army veteran of World War II serving in Europe with the 66th Armored Infantry and was awarded the Purple Heart. He worked several years for Itasca Tire in Grand Rapids and was co-owner and operator of Itasca TV and Appliance for many years. He also worked for Dairyland Electric in Grand Rapids, retiring in 1987. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club of Grand Rapids. Preceded in death by his parents, Ruth and Earl Lange, two sisters, Edith Grife and Ruth Adamson, and a brother, Paul Lange; he is survived by a daughter, Suzanne Cunningham, Grand Rapids: a son, Keith D. Lange, Grand Rapids; a sister, Dorothy Marsh, Mena, AR, and two grandchildren, Stacey Lange, Proctor and Eric Lange, Grand Rapids. Memorials and preferred to the American Heart Association. Arrangements are by Rowe Funeral Home, Grand Rapids, MN