OBITUARY: GRANDON-Charles M. GRANDON, aged 85, of 216 LeRoy St. SW, passed away Thursday at Kent Community Hospital. Surviving are his wife, Idesta; his children, Mrs. Myrle COMBS of Midland, Mrs. Howard (Margaret) CASE of Nova, Ohio, Mrs. Edward (Dorine) MARKOWSKI, Mrs. Donald (Dorothy) SCHULTE, Mrs. Violet DUBOIS, Mrs. James (Lela) MURPHY, all of Grand Rapids, Mrs. John (Vivian) RUSSO and John and Carolyn GRANDON, all of Jenison; 36 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; five sisters, Mrs. Lillian CARSON of Bay City, Mrs. Lyns (Gladys) DAYTON of Leedsville, La., Mrs. Mabel FRUM of Monihan, Tex., Mrs. Ralph (Nell) EVANS, Mrs. Dess FREEMAN, both of West Virginia and two brothers, Earl GRANDON of El Dorado, Ark., and John GRANDON of Warren, Ohio. Mr. GRANDON reposes at the Sullivan Chapel where the funeral service will be held Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev. Dale D. BROWN officiating. Interment Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. (SOURCE>Grand Rapids Press, Friday, 1 December 1972) ---------------------------------- I am sending this obituary to the list because Charles GRANDON was born 16 July 1887 and lived in Marshall County, WV until about 1930. His parents, John and Nancy (SIVERT) GRANDON are buried there in the Highland cemetery, as is his son, Charles Rolland GRANDON. He married Idesta WHITE in Marshall County, 3 January 1920. Six of his nine children were born there. Pam Villafuerte