All Obituaries

Randall “Randy” C. Cotter, 66, of Belding, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday afternoon, February 13, 2019 at Spectrum Health United Campus in Greenville. Randy was born on July 22, 1952 in Greenville, the son of Gerald G. and Janice M. (Elkins) Cotter. Randy graduated from Belding High School with the Class of 1970 and later retired as a machinist for Aggressive Tooling in Greenville retiring in 2018 after 27 years of service. For many years Randy coached baseball and football...

  Duane E Horrocks, 94, died peacefully in Mt Pleasant in the early morning of February 13, 2019. Duane was born on September 1, 1924 near Ionia, Michigan. Duane graduated from Ionia High School in 1943. A veteran of World War II, he served with the 8th Army Occupational as Military Policeman and was assigned as guard to Sugamo Prison Japan. Duane guarded Japanese prisoners on trial at the War Crimes Trials in Tokyo, Japan. He received the WWII Victory medal and the Army...

Lawrence "Larry" Cottrell Jr., 64, of Belding, passed away Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at home. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be posted later this week. Please keep Larry's family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

Vicki Lynn (Jenkins, Eddington) Hansbarger March 22, 1953 - February 11, 2019 There was once was a girl named Vicki Lynn, The daughter of Ed Jenkins and Phyllis Allen. She had three siblings, Cathy, Craig, and Chris. They loved her dearly and she they will truly miss. A widow she became when Jerry Eddington did pass. Bill Hansbarger came along and captured that lass. She devoted her life to her family. Her daughters, Melissa and Ericka, would surely agree. Her grandchildren, though, she...

Randall A. Potter, 74, of Lansing, passed away Saturday, February 9, 2019 in Lansing. In keeping with Randall's wishes cremation has taken place and no funeral or visitation will take place. Please keep Randall's family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

Charles Alan Smith Sr. 53 of Grattan Township, Belding passed away Friday, February 8, 2019 at Spectrum Health-Butterworth Campus in Grand Rapids. Charles was born on August 5, 1965 in Grand Rapids, the son of Charles L. and Clara D. ( Lovell) Smith. He graduated from Comstock Park High School. In earlier years he was a winning national flat track racer. He was an excellent mechanic and had worked at Harvey Cadillac in Grand Rapids for many years. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and spending...

Bessie M. Marshall, 73, of Belding, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday afternoon, February 5, 2019 at home. Bessie was born on January 29, 1946 in Greenback, TN, the daughter of Elmer W. and Rose L. (Poole) Johnson. Bessie had made Belding her home for the past several years. Throughout her life Bessie was a kind, caring and loving person starting first as a mom, grandma, great grandma and great great grandma. She had cared for and helped members of her family, older neighbors, people under...

John T. Lyons, 93, of Belding, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at home. John was born on October 9, 1925 in Ionia County, the son of Francis E. and Elizabeth C. (McCormick) Lyons. In earlier years as a young man John bought and operated a gas station on Main St. Belding for several years. He later owned J&M Motor Sales in Greenville a very successful used car dealership. After his dealership John continued helping his best friend Blake Hollenbeck with used car sales....

  Hilda M. Shindorf 93 of Sheridan passed away Saturday morning February 2, 2019 at Kelsey Memorial Hospital in Lakeview. Hilda was born on February 22, 1925 in Barryton, the daughter of Clarence and Hazel (Sanger) Bottorff. She proudly graduated as Salutatorian  with the Class of 1943 from  Barryton High School. She was married on May 5, 1945 in Colorado Springs to Bernard Shindorf. He preceded her as well as her parents, two brothers; Carl and Harvey and a sister Gracelyn....

 Because someone we love is in heaven, there’s a little bit of HEAVEN in our homes. Our mother, Margaret Louise Mary Reitz Scheid, was welcomed into this world by her parents, Anthony and Edith, and two of three siblings, William and Virginia, sometime during the day on Saturday, July 3, 1926. On February 1, 2019, after spending 92 years on this earth (or in her words living her 93rd year) Margaret was called by her Savior to join Him, and her husband, Howard, as well as...