Ray Trucks
Ray Trucks, 80, died Tuesday morning, July 20, at Paulina Sterns hospital in Ludington. Death was due to an aortic aneurysm.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 24, from Baldwin Congregational church at 2:00 p.m. with the Rev. Carl Hathaway officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Plains cemetery.
Surviving besides his wife, Lerene, are three daughters, Mrs. Jack (Olga) McClellan, Mrs. Kenneth (Beth) Tripp and Mrs. H. Howard (Norma) Russell all of Baldwin, three brothers, Max of Plymouth, Fred of St. Louis, Mich., and Kenneth of Baldwin, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Mr. Trucks was preceded in death by a son, Ford, in 1954, and one brother Glen.
Graveside services will be conducted by Lodge of the Lakes No. 545, F. & A.M.
Mr. Trucks was a member of the Lodge of the Lake No. 545, F. & A.M., Baldwin Chapter No. 494 O.E.S., Pleasant Plains Lodge No. 59, I.O.O.F. and Fern Leaf Rebekah Lodge No. 255 of Baldwin.
He has been head of the Lake County Draft Board since World War I. He was a past president of the Michigan Title Association and a member of the American Title Association. He was president of the Baldwin School Board for 27 years and a well known authority on Michigan Title law.
Mr. Trucks was a Director of the Lake-Osceola State Bank.
Lake County Star
July 22, 1965.
Ray Trucks
Funeral services for Ray Trucks, prominent Lake County attorney and civic leader, will be held Saturay, July 24, at 2:00 p.m. from the Baldwin Congregational church.
Mr. Trucks died in Paulina Sterns hospital, Ludington, Tuesday morning. Death was due to an aortic aneurysm.
Ray Trucks was born November 27, 1884 at Montpelier, Ohio.
His Parents moved to South Custer in 1887 and in 1889 moved to Scottville, Mason County, where he attended grade and high school, graduating from high school in 1903 as president of the class of five. This was the first twelfth grade to graduate from Scottville High School.
During his yeras in high school he lighted some 25 kerosene street lamps for the Village of Scottville each night that the moon did not shine, receiving the sum of $3.00 per month.
After high school he worked at odd jobs and saved enough to pay his fare to Detroit and $25.00 for the first term at the Detroit College of Law in the fall of 1904.
He graduated in June 1908, receiving his LLB degree and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court in the same month of that year and later admitted to practice by the curcuit Court of Mason County where he hung out his shingle.
He was city clerk and city attorney for Scottville until June 1912, when he moved to Baldwin and later in that year he started to write a set of abstract records covering the lands in Lake County.
In 1914 he was elected prosecuting attorney which position he held for six years, and in the year 1921, on a vacancy in the office of Probate Judge he was appointed Probate Judge which office he held until January 1925. Since that he has held no public office, except about 20 years on the Board of Education for Baldwin Public Schools.
He was also interested in developing Lake County as a resort county, and in 1919 purchased the L Lakes Tract of 800 acres in Pleasant Plains Township, Lake County, from Howard H. Parsons, the person who developed Marlborough and the Marlborough Portland Cement Company. Later he platted the two larger L Lakes on the east side of M-37, as L Lakes Cottage Colony, and the land to the north along the Little South Branch of the Pere Marquette River as Little South River Acres.
In 1930, he started the compilation of a set of abstract records at Reed City, which set of records was completed in 1935. He operated this office as well as the Baldwin office until 1946 when his son Ford took the Reed City office and operated it until his death in 1954. Later and currently the Reed City office is owned and operated by H. Howard Russell, his son-in-law.
Lake County Star
July 22, 1965.
Ray Trucks
Ray Trucks, 80, died Tuesday morning, July 20, at Paulina Sterns hospital in Ludington. Death was due to an aortic aneurysm.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 24, from Baldwin Congregational church at 2:00 p.m. with the Rev. Carl Hathaway officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Plains cemetery.
Surviving besides his wife, Lerene, are three daughters, Mrs. Jack (Olga) McClellan, Mrs. Kenneth (Beth) Tripp and Mrs. H. Howard (Norma) Russell all of Baldwin, three brothers, Max of Plymouth, Fred of St. Louis, Mich., and Kenneth of Baldwin, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Mr. Trucks was preceded in death by a son, Ford, in 1954, and one brother Glen.
Graveside services will be conducted by Lodge of the Lakes No. 545, F. & A.M.
Mr. Trucks was a member of the Lodge of the Lake No. 545, F. & A.M., Baldwin Chapter No. 494 O.E.S., Pleasant Plains Lodge No. 59, I.O.O.F. and Fern Leaf Rebekah Lodge No. 255 of Baldwin.
He has been head of the Lake County Draft Board since World War I. He was a past president of the Michigan Title Association and a member of the American Title Association. He was president of the Baldwin School Board for 27 years and a well known authority on Michigan Title law.
Mr. Trucks was a Director of the Lake-Osceola State Bank.
Lake County Star
July 22, 1965.
Ray Trucks
Funeral services for Ray Trucks, prominent Lake County attorney and civic leader, will be held Saturay, July 24, at 2:00 p.m. from the Baldwin Congregational church.
Mr. Trucks died in Paulina Sterns hospital, Ludington, Tuesday morning. Death was due to an aortic aneurysm.
Ray Trucks was born November 27, 1884 at Montpelier, Ohio.
His Parents moved to South Custer in 1887 and in 1889 moved to Scottville, Mason County, where he attended grade and high school, graduating from high school in 1903 as president of the class of five. This was the first twelfth grade to graduate from Scottville High School.
During his yeras in high school he lighted some 25 kerosene street lamps for the Village of Scottville each night that the moon did not shine, receiving the sum of $3.00 per month.
After high school he worked at odd jobs and saved enough to pay his fare to Detroit and $25.00 for the first term at the Detroit College of Law in the fall of 1904.
He graduated in June 1908, receiving his LLB degree and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court in the same month of that year and later admitted to practice by the curcuit Court of Mason County where he hung out his shingle.
He was city clerk and city attorney for Scottville until June 1912, when he moved to Baldwin and later in that year he started to write a set of abstract records covering the lands in Lake County.
In 1914 he was elected prosecuting attorney which position he held for six years, and in the year 1921, on a vacancy in the office of Probate Judge he was appointed Probate Judge which office he held until January 1925. Since that he has held no public office, except about 20 years on the Board of Education for Baldwin Public Schools.
He was also interested in developing Lake County as a resort county, and in 1919 purchased the L Lakes Tract of 800 acres in Pleasant Plains Township, Lake County, from Howard H. Parsons, the person who developed Marlborough and the Marlborough Portland Cement Company. Later he platted the two larger L Lakes on the east side of M-37, as L Lakes Cottage Colony, and the land to the north along the Little South Branch of the Pere Marquette River as Little South River Acres.
In 1930, he started the compilation of a set of abstract records at Reed City, which set of records was completed in 1935. He operated this office as well as the Baldwin office until 1946 when his son Ford took the Reed City office and operated it until his death in 1954. Later and currently the Reed City office is owned and operated by H. Howard Russell, his son-in-law.
Lake County Star
July 22, 1965.
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