This obituary appeared in the September 2, 1941 issue of the Monroe Evening News.
R.L. LORRAINE, 62 DIED THIS MORNING - Member of the News Staff Had Spent Lifetime In Newspaper Profession.
R.L. Lorraine, editor and publisher of newspapers in several Michigan cities and the last 13 years a member of The Evening News mechanical staff, died at 4:10 this morning in Mercy Hospital. Mr. Lorraine who lived at 503 North Monroe Street, had been under treatment for a heart ailment for several weeks and was taken to the hospital a week ago Saturday. He was 62 years of age.
One of the oldest members in point of service of The News organization. Mr. Lorraine had set the headlines and much of the reading matter that went into each day's issue for 13 years, operating a Linotype machine, upon which he was an expert craftsman.
Prior to coming to Monroe in 1928, Mr. Lorraine had published and edited newspapers in northern Michigan, spending a lifetime in the profession which his father had taught him.
Roy Leighton Lorraine was born at Bird Island, Minnesota, January 8, 1879. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Leister Lorraine.
In 1901 he married Miss Laura Follmer. After her death he married Miss Edna Talbot in Hamilton, Illinois. For three years before his second marriage he was employed in the government printing office in Washington, D.C. Mr. and Mrs. Lorraine came to Michigan in 1907.
For several years Mr. Lorraine and his father were associated in the publication of the Charlevoix Hearld. Later be published the Belaire Independent for four years and worked on a weekly newspaper for a time at Coopersville. Mr. Lorraine then went to Big Rapids, where he served the Big Rapids Pioneer first as composing room foreman and then as the city editor. He also published the paper at Wolverine.
In 1928 Mr. and Mrs. Lorraine and their son, Clarence, moved to Monroe where both father and son were employed at the News as Linotype opeators. Later the son continued his education at Adrian College and joined the editorial staff of the News, carrying on the third generation of newspaper workmanship in the Lorraine family. The younger Mr. Lorraine is now editor of the News.
Besides the widow and the son in Monroe, Mr. Lorraine is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ed Kamradt of East Jordan and Miss Laura Lorraine of Palo Alto, California; brother, Bert Lorraine of East Jordan and a sister Mrs. Jay Trombley of Flint. Another sister, Mrs. John Burney of East Jordan died ten years ago.
Private funeral services will be held Friday afternoon, the time to be determined later, at Toledo Crematorium following prayer services at Allore, Beam and Weber mortuary. Interment will be in Toledo.
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It was originaly presumed that Roy's cremated remains were interred in Woodland Cemetery in Toledo, Ohio, based on this obituary. Research by his grand niece, Jill Waugh, has revealled that his remains were creamated at Woodland and sent to the Beam mortuary but not returned for burial. Roy's granddaughter, Jean Weiss, was contacted and she revealed that Roy and his wife Edna's cremated remains were retained by the family and finally interred with their son, Clarence, in Highland Cemetery, Brooklyn, Jackson County, Michigan.
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Roy Lorraine Biography prepared by his grandson Bill Kamradt;
Roy Leighton Lorraine was born January 8, 1879 in Montevideo, Minnesota and moved with his family to Oronoco, Minnesota in 1880 where he was enumerated in the 1880 U.S. Census.
When he was not yet two years old the family moved to Mantorville, Minnesota where they lived for about a year before moving to Bird Island, Minnesota, in November 1882. It was in Bird Island that Roy received his primary education and began learning the printing trade at his father's side.
In February 1891, when Roy was twelve years old, he moved with his family to the small, but prosperous, lumbering town of East Jordan, Michigan; where he graduated from high school at the age of 14 years. He worked with his father in publishing a weekly newspaper, 'The Enterprise'.
On July 17, 1901, Roy married Laura May Follmer in Schoolcraft, Michigan, at the residence of his bride's family. Laura had graduated from Michigan Normal College in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1899 and then became an elementary teacher in East Jordan. Michigan, where she met and was courted by Roy.
The newly weds settled in East Jordan where Roy, for a time, continued to work with his father. In 1902, Roy purchased the 'Charlevoix County Hearld', another weekly newspaper published in East Jordan, and became the competitor of his father.
In 1904 Roy sold the 'Hearld' to G.A. Lisk and founded the 'Wolverine Express' a weekly newspaper he published in the town of Wolverine, Michigan and moved the family there. This enterprise did not do well and he took employment with the U.S. Printing Office in Washington, D.C.. while leaving the management of the 'Express' to his brother Bert.
On December 12, 1904 Laura delivered, in Wolverine, Michigan, a daughter who was named Laura Follmer Lorraine. Complications from this birth resulted in the death of Roy's wife on December 30, 1904. The infant Laura, was given to her widowed maternal grandmother, Martha C. Follmer, to be raised, while the first born, Martha, was given to her paternal grandparents, Almeda and C.L. Lorraine to rear. Laura was buried in the Follmer family burial plot in the Evergreen Cemetery in Muskegon, Michigan.
Roy sold the 'Wolverine Express' and his household goods following his wife's funeral and returned to his linotype operator job with the U.S. Printing Office for a short while and then moved to Keokuk, Iowa to work in the printing trade there. While in Koekuk he met and courted Edna J. Talbot who he married in Hamilton, Illinois on Christmas day 1906.
In 1907 he returned with his bride to East Jordan, Michigan and again worked with his father in publishing the 'Enterprise'. Roy purchased the 'Bellaire Independent', a weekly newspaper published in Bellair, Michigan, but continued to live in East Jordan where his son, Clarence E. Lorraine, was born on May 11, 1910.
About 1912, Roy, his wife and son, moved to Coopersville, Michigan where he worked for the 'Coopersville Observer', probably in a non-managerial position. About 1915, the family moved again, to Big Rapids, Michigan, where Roy workded for a daily newspaper, 'The Big Rapids Pioneer'. Roy was managing editor of the 'Pioneer' when he made his final employment move in 1928. This move took he and his family to Monroe, Michigan where he served on the staff of the 'Monroe Evening News'. Roy set most of the headlines and operated the Linotype machines for the 'News'.
Roy had problems with a rheumatic heart most of his life and chronic myocarditis for the final ten years. Roy passed away, after a two weeks stay, in Monroe's Mercy Hospital, on September 2, 1941. His death certificate indicates his cause of death to be 'coronary thrombosis'. He was 62 years, 7 months and 24 days old at the time of his passing. His remains were creamated and retained by his family to finally be interred with his wife Edna' ashes, in Highland Cemetery, Brooklyn, Jackson County, Michigan, where their son Clarence was buried in 1971.
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R.L. LORRAINE, 62 DIED THIS MORNING - Member of the News Staff Had Spent Lifetime In Newspaper Profession.
R.L. Lorraine, editor and publisher of newspapers in several Michigan cities and the last 13 years a member of The Evening News mechanical staff, died at 4:10 this morning in Mercy Hospital. Mr. Lorraine who lived at 503 North Monroe Street, had been under treatment for a heart ailment for several weeks and was taken to the hospital a week ago Saturday. He was 62 years of age.
One of the oldest members in point of service of The News organization. Mr. Lorraine had set the headlines and much of the reading matter that went into each day's issue for 13 years, operating a Linotype machine, upon which he was an expert craftsman.
Prior to coming to Monroe in 1928, Mr. Lorraine had published and edited newspapers in northern Michigan, spending a lifetime in the profession which his father had taught him.
Roy Leighton Lorraine was born at Bird Island, Minnesota, January 8, 1879. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Leister Lorraine.
In 1901 he married Miss Laura Follmer. After her death he married Miss Edna Talbot in Hamilton, Illinois. For three years before his second marriage he was employed in the government printing office in Washington, D.C. Mr. and Mrs. Lorraine came to Michigan in 1907.
For several years Mr. Lorraine and his father were associated in the publication of the Charlevoix Hearld. Later be published the Belaire Independent for four years and worked on a weekly newspaper for a time at Coopersville. Mr. Lorraine then went to Big Rapids, where he served the Big Rapids Pioneer first as composing room foreman and then as the city editor. He also published the paper at Wolverine.
In 1928 Mr. and Mrs. Lorraine and their son, Clarence, moved to Monroe where both father and son were employed at the News as Linotype opeators. Later the son continued his education at Adrian College and joined the editorial staff of the News, carrying on the third generation of newspaper workmanship in the Lorraine family. The younger Mr. Lorraine is now editor of the News.
Besides the widow and the son in Monroe, Mr. Lorraine is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ed Kamradt of East Jordan and Miss Laura Lorraine of Palo Alto, California; brother, Bert Lorraine of East Jordan and a sister Mrs. Jay Trombley of Flint. Another sister, Mrs. John Burney of East Jordan died ten years ago.
Private funeral services will be held Friday afternoon, the time to be determined later, at Toledo Crematorium following prayer services at Allore, Beam and Weber mortuary. Interment will be in Toledo.
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It was originaly presumed that Roy's cremated remains were interred in Woodland Cemetery in Toledo, Ohio, based on this obituary. Research by his grand niece, Jill Waugh, has revealled that his remains were creamated at Woodland and sent to the Beam mortuary but not returned for burial. Roy's granddaughter, Jean Weiss, was contacted and she revealed that Roy and his wife Edna's cremated remains were retained by the family and finally interred with their son, Clarence, in Highland Cemetery, Brooklyn, Jackson County, Michigan.
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Roy Lorraine Biography prepared by his grandson Bill Kamradt;
Roy Leighton Lorraine was born January 8, 1879 in Montevideo, Minnesota and moved with his family to Oronoco, Minnesota in 1880 where he was enumerated in the 1880 U.S. Census.
When he was not yet two years old the family moved to Mantorville, Minnesota where they lived for about a year before moving to Bird Island, Minnesota, in November 1882. It was in Bird Island that Roy received his primary education and began learning the printing trade at his father's side.
In February 1891, when Roy was twelve years old, he moved with his family to the small, but prosperous, lumbering town of East Jordan, Michigan; where he graduated from high school at the age of 14 years. He worked with his father in publishing a weekly newspaper, 'The Enterprise'.
On July 17, 1901, Roy married Laura May Follmer in Schoolcraft, Michigan, at the residence of his bride's family. Laura had graduated from Michigan Normal College in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1899 and then became an elementary teacher in East Jordan. Michigan, where she met and was courted by Roy.
The newly weds settled in East Jordan where Roy, for a time, continued to work with his father. In 1902, Roy purchased the 'Charlevoix County Hearld', another weekly newspaper published in East Jordan, and became the competitor of his father.
In 1904 Roy sold the 'Hearld' to G.A. Lisk and founded the 'Wolverine Express' a weekly newspaper he published in the town of Wolverine, Michigan and moved the family there. This enterprise did not do well and he took employment with the U.S. Printing Office in Washington, D.C.. while leaving the management of the 'Express' to his brother Bert.
On December 12, 1904 Laura delivered, in Wolverine, Michigan, a daughter who was named Laura Follmer Lorraine. Complications from this birth resulted in the death of Roy's wife on December 30, 1904. The infant Laura, was given to her widowed maternal grandmother, Martha C. Follmer, to be raised, while the first born, Martha, was given to her paternal grandparents, Almeda and C.L. Lorraine to rear. Laura was buried in the Follmer family burial plot in the Evergreen Cemetery in Muskegon, Michigan.
Roy sold the 'Wolverine Express' and his household goods following his wife's funeral and returned to his linotype operator job with the U.S. Printing Office for a short while and then moved to Keokuk, Iowa to work in the printing trade there. While in Koekuk he met and courted Edna J. Talbot who he married in Hamilton, Illinois on Christmas day 1906.
In 1907 he returned with his bride to East Jordan, Michigan and again worked with his father in publishing the 'Enterprise'. Roy purchased the 'Bellaire Independent', a weekly newspaper published in Bellair, Michigan, but continued to live in East Jordan where his son, Clarence E. Lorraine, was born on May 11, 1910.
About 1912, Roy, his wife and son, moved to Coopersville, Michigan where he worked for the 'Coopersville Observer', probably in a non-managerial position. About 1915, the family moved again, to Big Rapids, Michigan, where Roy workded for a daily newspaper, 'The Big Rapids Pioneer'. Roy was managing editor of the 'Pioneer' when he made his final employment move in 1928. This move took he and his family to Monroe, Michigan where he served on the staff of the 'Monroe Evening News'. Roy set most of the headlines and operated the Linotype machines for the 'News'.
Roy had problems with a rheumatic heart most of his life and chronic myocarditis for the final ten years. Roy passed away, after a two weeks stay, in Monroe's Mercy Hospital, on September 2, 1941. His death certificate indicates his cause of death to be 'coronary thrombosis'. He was 62 years, 7 months and 24 days old at the time of his passing. His remains were creamated and retained by his family to finally be interred with his wife Edna' ashes, in Highland Cemetery, Brooklyn, Jackson County, Michigan, where their son Clarence was buried in 1971.
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This obituary appeared in the September 2, 1941 issue of the Monroe Evening News.
R.L. LORRAINE, 62 DIED THIS MORNING - Member of the News Staff Had Spent Lifetime In Newspaper Profession.
R.L. Lorraine, editor and publisher of newspapers in several Michigan cities and the last 13 years a member of The Evening News mechanical staff, died at 4:10 this morning in Mercy Hospital. Mr. Lorraine who lived at 503 North Monroe Street, had been under treatment for a heart ailment for several weeks and was taken to the hospital a week ago Saturday. He was 62 years of age.
One of the oldest members in point of service of The News organization. Mr. Lorraine had set the headlines and much of the reading matter that went into each day's issue for 13 years, operating a Linotype machine, upon which he was an expert craftsman.
Prior to coming to Monroe in 1928, Mr. Lorraine had published and edited newspapers in northern Michigan, spending a lifetime in the profession which his father had taught him.
Roy Leighton Lorraine was born at Bird Island, Minnesota, January 8, 1879. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Leister Lorraine.
In 1901 he married Miss Laura Follmer. After her death he married Miss Edna Talbot in Hamilton, Illinois. For three years before his second marriage he was employed in the government printing office in Washington, D.C. Mr. and Mrs. Lorraine came to Michigan in 1907.
For several years Mr. Lorraine and his father were associated in the publication of the Charlevoix Hearld. Later be published the Belaire Independent for four years and worked on a weekly newspaper for a time at Coopersville. Mr. Lorraine then went to Big Rapids, where he served the Big Rapids Pioneer first as composing room foreman and then as the city editor. He also published the paper at Wolverine.
In 1928 Mr. and Mrs. Lorraine and their son, Clarence, moved to Monroe where both father and son were employed at the News as Linotype opeators. Later the son continued his education at Adrian College and joined the editorial staff of the News, carrying on the third generation of newspaper workmanship in the Lorraine family. The younger Mr. Lorraine is now editor of the News.
Besides the widow and the son in Monroe, Mr. Lorraine is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ed Kamradt of East Jordan and Miss Laura Lorraine of Palo Alto, California; brother, Bert Lorraine of East Jordan and a sister Mrs. Jay Trombley of Flint. Another sister, Mrs. John Burney of East Jordan died ten years ago.
Private funeral services will be held Friday afternoon, the time to be determined later, at Toledo Crematorium following prayer services at Allore, Beam and Weber mortuary. Interment will be in Toledo.
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It was originaly presumed that Roy's cremated remains were interred in Woodland Cemetery in Toledo, Ohio, based on this obituary. Research by his grand niece, Jill Waugh, has revealled that his remains were creamated at Woodland and sent to the Beam mortuary but not returned for burial. Roy's granddaughter, Jean Weiss, was contacted and she revealed that Roy and his wife Edna's cremated remains were retained by the family and finally interred with their son, Clarence, in Highland Cemetery, Brooklyn, Jackson County, Michigan.
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Roy Lorraine Biography prepared by his grandson Bill Kamradt;
Roy Leighton Lorraine was born January 8, 1879 in Montevideo, Minnesota and moved with his family to Oronoco, Minnesota in 1880 where he was enumerated in the 1880 U.S. Census.
When he was not yet two years old the family moved to Mantorville, Minnesota where they lived for about a year before moving to Bird Island, Minnesota, in November 1882. It was in Bird Island that Roy received his primary education and began learning the printing trade at his father's side.
In February 1891, when Roy was twelve years old, he moved with his family to the small, but prosperous, lumbering town of East Jordan, Michigan; where he graduated from high school at the age of 14 years. He worked with his father in publishing a weekly newspaper, 'The Enterprise'.
On July 17, 1901, Roy married Laura May Follmer in Schoolcraft, Michigan, at the residence of his bride's family. Laura had graduated from Michigan Normal College in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1899 and then became an elementary teacher in East Jordan. Michigan, where she met and was courted by Roy.
The newly weds settled in East Jordan where Roy, for a time, continued to work with his father. In 1902, Roy purchased the 'Charlevoix County Hearld', another weekly newspaper published in East Jordan, and became the competitor of his father.
In 1904 Roy sold the 'Hearld' to G.A. Lisk and founded the 'Wolverine Express' a weekly newspaper he published in the town of Wolverine, Michigan and moved the family there. This enterprise did not do well and he took employment with the U.S. Printing Office in Washington, D.C.. while leaving the management of the 'Express' to his brother Bert.
On December 12, 1904 Laura delivered, in Wolverine, Michigan, a daughter who was named Laura Follmer Lorraine. Complications from this birth resulted in the death of Roy's wife on December 30, 1904. The infant Laura, was given to her widowed maternal grandmother, Martha C. Follmer, to be raised, while the first born, Martha, was given to her paternal grandparents, Almeda and C.L. Lorraine to rear. Laura was buried in the Follmer family burial plot in the Evergreen Cemetery in Muskegon, Michigan.
Roy sold the 'Wolverine Express' and his household goods following his wife's funeral and returned to his linotype operator job with the U.S. Printing Office for a short while and then moved to Keokuk, Iowa to work in the printing trade there. While in Koekuk he met and courted Edna J. Talbot who he married in Hamilton, Illinois on Christmas day 1906.
In 1907 he returned with his bride to East Jordan, Michigan and again worked with his father in publishing the 'Enterprise'. Roy purchased the 'Bellaire Independent', a weekly newspaper published in Bellair, Michigan, but continued to live in East Jordan where his son, Clarence E. Lorraine, was born on May 11, 1910.
About 1912, Roy, his wife and son, moved to Coopersville, Michigan where he worked for the 'Coopersville Observer', probably in a non-managerial position. About 1915, the family moved again, to Big Rapids, Michigan, where Roy workded for a daily newspaper, 'The Big Rapids Pioneer'. Roy was managing editor of the 'Pioneer' when he made his final employment move in 1928. This move took he and his family to Monroe, Michigan where he served on the staff of the 'Monroe Evening News'. Roy set most of the headlines and operated the Linotype machines for the 'News'.
Roy had problems with a rheumatic heart most of his life and chronic myocarditis for the final ten years. Roy passed away, after a two weeks stay, in Monroe's Mercy Hospital, on September 2, 1941. His death certificate indicates his cause of death to be 'coronary thrombosis'. He was 62 years, 7 months and 24 days old at the time of his passing. His remains were creamated and retained by his family to finally be interred with his wife Edna' ashes, in Highland Cemetery, Brooklyn, Jackson County, Michigan, where their son Clarence was buried in 1971.
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R.L. LORRAINE, 62 DIED THIS MORNING - Member of the News Staff Had Spent Lifetime In Newspaper Profession.
R.L. Lorraine, editor and publisher of newspapers in several Michigan cities and the last 13 years a member of The Evening News mechanical staff, died at 4:10 this morning in Mercy Hospital. Mr. Lorraine who lived at 503 North Monroe Street, had been under treatment for a heart ailment for several weeks and was taken to the hospital a week ago Saturday. He was 62 years of age.
One of the oldest members in point of service of The News organization. Mr. Lorraine had set the headlines and much of the reading matter that went into each day's issue for 13 years, operating a Linotype machine, upon which he was an expert craftsman.
Prior to coming to Monroe in 1928, Mr. Lorraine had published and edited newspapers in northern Michigan, spending a lifetime in the profession which his father had taught him.
Roy Leighton Lorraine was born at Bird Island, Minnesota, January 8, 1879. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Leister Lorraine.
In 1901 he married Miss Laura Follmer. After her death he married Miss Edna Talbot in Hamilton, Illinois. For three years before his second marriage he was employed in the government printing office in Washington, D.C. Mr. and Mrs. Lorraine came to Michigan in 1907.
For several years Mr. Lorraine and his father were associated in the publication of the Charlevoix Hearld. Later be published the Belaire Independent for four years and worked on a weekly newspaper for a time at Coopersville. Mr. Lorraine then went to Big Rapids, where he served the Big Rapids Pioneer first as composing room foreman and then as the city editor. He also published the paper at Wolverine.
In 1928 Mr. and Mrs. Lorraine and their son, Clarence, moved to Monroe where both father and son were employed at the News as Linotype opeators. Later the son continued his education at Adrian College and joined the editorial staff of the News, carrying on the third generation of newspaper workmanship in the Lorraine family. The younger Mr. Lorraine is now editor of the News.
Besides the widow and the son in Monroe, Mr. Lorraine is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ed Kamradt of East Jordan and Miss Laura Lorraine of Palo Alto, California; brother, Bert Lorraine of East Jordan and a sister Mrs. Jay Trombley of Flint. Another sister, Mrs. John Burney of East Jordan died ten years ago.
Private funeral services will be held Friday afternoon, the time to be determined later, at Toledo Crematorium following prayer services at Allore, Beam and Weber mortuary. Interment will be in Toledo.
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It was originaly presumed that Roy's cremated remains were interred in Woodland Cemetery in Toledo, Ohio, based on this obituary. Research by his grand niece, Jill Waugh, has revealled that his remains were creamated at Woodland and sent to the Beam mortuary but not returned for burial. Roy's granddaughter, Jean Weiss, was contacted and she revealed that Roy and his wife Edna's cremated remains were retained by the family and finally interred with their son, Clarence, in Highland Cemetery, Brooklyn, Jackson County, Michigan.
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Roy Lorraine Biography prepared by his grandson Bill Kamradt;
Roy Leighton Lorraine was born January 8, 1879 in Montevideo, Minnesota and moved with his family to Oronoco, Minnesota in 1880 where he was enumerated in the 1880 U.S. Census.
When he was not yet two years old the family moved to Mantorville, Minnesota where they lived for about a year before moving to Bird Island, Minnesota, in November 1882. It was in Bird Island that Roy received his primary education and began learning the printing trade at his father's side.
In February 1891, when Roy was twelve years old, he moved with his family to the small, but prosperous, lumbering town of East Jordan, Michigan; where he graduated from high school at the age of 14 years. He worked with his father in publishing a weekly newspaper, 'The Enterprise'.
On July 17, 1901, Roy married Laura May Follmer in Schoolcraft, Michigan, at the residence of his bride's family. Laura had graduated from Michigan Normal College in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1899 and then became an elementary teacher in East Jordan. Michigan, where she met and was courted by Roy.
The newly weds settled in East Jordan where Roy, for a time, continued to work with his father. In 1902, Roy purchased the 'Charlevoix County Hearld', another weekly newspaper published in East Jordan, and became the competitor of his father.
In 1904 Roy sold the 'Hearld' to G.A. Lisk and founded the 'Wolverine Express' a weekly newspaper he published in the town of Wolverine, Michigan and moved the family there. This enterprise did not do well and he took employment with the U.S. Printing Office in Washington, D.C.. while leaving the management of the 'Express' to his brother Bert.
On December 12, 1904 Laura delivered, in Wolverine, Michigan, a daughter who was named Laura Follmer Lorraine. Complications from this birth resulted in the death of Roy's wife on December 30, 1904. The infant Laura, was given to her widowed maternal grandmother, Martha C. Follmer, to be raised, while the first born, Martha, was given to her paternal grandparents, Almeda and C.L. Lorraine to rear. Laura was buried in the Follmer family burial plot in the Evergreen Cemetery in Muskegon, Michigan.
Roy sold the 'Wolverine Express' and his household goods following his wife's funeral and returned to his linotype operator job with the U.S. Printing Office for a short while and then moved to Keokuk, Iowa to work in the printing trade there. While in Koekuk he met and courted Edna J. Talbot who he married in Hamilton, Illinois on Christmas day 1906.
In 1907 he returned with his bride to East Jordan, Michigan and again worked with his father in publishing the 'Enterprise'. Roy purchased the 'Bellaire Independent', a weekly newspaper published in Bellair, Michigan, but continued to live in East Jordan where his son, Clarence E. Lorraine, was born on May 11, 1910.
About 1912, Roy, his wife and son, moved to Coopersville, Michigan where he worked for the 'Coopersville Observer', probably in a non-managerial position. About 1915, the family moved again, to Big Rapids, Michigan, where Roy workded for a daily newspaper, 'The Big Rapids Pioneer'. Roy was managing editor of the 'Pioneer' when he made his final employment move in 1928. This move took he and his family to Monroe, Michigan where he served on the staff of the 'Monroe Evening News'. Roy set most of the headlines and operated the Linotype machines for the 'News'.
Roy had problems with a rheumatic heart most of his life and chronic myocarditis for the final ten years. Roy passed away, after a two weeks stay, in Monroe's Mercy Hospital, on September 2, 1941. His death certificate indicates his cause of death to be 'coronary thrombosis'. He was 62 years, 7 months and 24 days old at the time of his passing. His remains were creamated and retained by his family to finally be interred with his wife Edna' ashes, in Highland Cemetery, Brooklyn, Jackson County, Michigan, where their son Clarence was buried in 1971.
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