Levi LEITER, 86, longtime resident of the Leiters Ford community died at 8:55 a.m. Sunday in Woodlawn hospital, where he had been a patient for five weeks.
Born Aug. 19, 1873, 2 1/2 miles east of Leiters Ford, he had spent his entire life in the house where he was born except for the past five years. At that time he moved to a mile north of Rochester on U.S. 31 after retiring from farming. His parents were Jacob and Lydia (ROSE) LEITER, pioneer residents of the Leiters Ford community.
He was married at Rochester in 1895 to Maude TANNER, who died in May, 1920. A 60-year member of the Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 618, he also was a lifetime member of the Leiters Ford Methodist church, where he taught a Sunday school class for 50 years. He also belonged to the Mt. Horeb Encampment No. 24, Rochester.
Survving are one daughter, Mrs. Stewart (Gladys) KISPAUGH, Battle Creek, Mich.; one son, Robert E. LEITER, BattleCreek; seven grandchildren; one sister, Miss Mollie LEITER, Rochester; one brother, Edward LEITER, Bethlehem, Pa., and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral rites will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Leiters Ford Methodist church with the Rev. Theodore ROBERTS officiating, assisted by the Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. lodge. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Leiters Ford. Friends may call at the Foster & Good funeral home here after 2 p.m. today until noon on Tuesday and at the church from 1-2 p.m. Tuesday.
Levi LEITER, 86, longtime resident of the Leiters Ford community died at 8:55 a.m. Sunday in Woodlawn hospital, where he had been a patient for five weeks.
Born Aug. 19, 1873, 2 1/2 miles east of Leiters Ford, he had spent his entire life in the house where he was born except for the past five years. At that time he moved to a mile north of Rochester on U.S. 31 after retiring from farming. His parents were Jacob and Lydia (ROSE) LEITER, pioneer residents of the Leiters Ford community.
He was married at Rochester in 1895 to Maude TANNER, who died in May, 1920. A 60-year member of the Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 618, he also was a lifetime member of the Leiters Ford Methodist church, where he taught a Sunday school class for 50 years. He also belonged to the Mt. Horeb Encampment No. 24, Rochester.
Survving are one daughter, Mrs. Stewart (Gladys) KISPAUGH, Battle Creek, Mich.; one son, Robert E. LEITER, BattleCreek; seven grandchildren; one sister, Miss Mollie LEITER, Rochester; one brother, Edward LEITER, Bethlehem, Pa., and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral rites will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Leiters Ford Methodist church with the Rev. Theodore ROBERTS officiating, assisted by the Leiters Ford I.O.O.F. lodge. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery at Leiters Ford. Friends may call at the Foster & Good funeral home here after 2 p.m. today until noon on Tuesday and at the church from 1-2 p.m. Tuesday.
Family Members
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Jane Leiter
1862–1944
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Barbara A Leiter Campbell
1864–1899
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Adda Leiter
1865–1896
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Minnie Victoria Leiter
1868–1871
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Laura Leiter
1869–1889
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Ulysses Abraham "Hadley" Leiter
1871–1959
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Eli Cass Leiter
1875–1934
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Lydia Ann "Anna" Leiter Hunneshagen
1878–1912
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Mollie Leiter
1880–1960
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Savillia Leiter Cook
1882–1912
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Edward L. Leiter
1885–1965
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