Groff - Carl J. Groff, 76, died Tuesday evening at 7:10 o'clock at his residence, 3211 North Water street, following a two-year illness. Born in Germany Oct. 12, 1883, he had lived in Bay City 60 years. He was a retired switchman on the former Pere Marquette Railway, a maintenance man for Cooley Foundry Co. and a member of St. Joseph church. Services will be Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock at W. A. Trahan Funeral chapel and at 11 o'clock at St. Joseph church with the Very Rev. Fr. Francis Trotter officiating. Burial will be in St. Patrick cemetery. The body is at the funeral home. Survivors are: his widow Elizabeth, three daughters, Mrs. Melvin Cuthbert, of Bay City, Mrs. Thomas Savage, of Essexville, and Mrs. Ray Hertel, Jr., of Los Angeles, Calif.; three sons, Joseph, of Saginaw, Byron, of Caseville, and Raymond, of Essexville; two sisters, Mrs. Ed Galvin, of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Logan Alberdine, of Colo., 17 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren
Groff - Carl J. Groff, 76, died Tuesday evening at 7:10 o'clock at his residence, 3211 North Water street, following a two-year illness. Born in Germany Oct. 12, 1883, he had lived in Bay City 60 years. He was a retired switchman on the former Pere Marquette Railway, a maintenance man for Cooley Foundry Co. and a member of St. Joseph church. Services will be Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock at W. A. Trahan Funeral chapel and at 11 o'clock at St. Joseph church with the Very Rev. Fr. Francis Trotter officiating. Burial will be in St. Patrick cemetery. The body is at the funeral home. Survivors are: his widow Elizabeth, three daughters, Mrs. Melvin Cuthbert, of Bay City, Mrs. Thomas Savage, of Essexville, and Mrs. Ray Hertel, Jr., of Los Angeles, Calif.; three sons, Joseph, of Saginaw, Byron, of Caseville, and Raymond, of Essexville; two sisters, Mrs. Ed Galvin, of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Logan Alberdine, of Colo., 17 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren
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