OBITUARIES
Pioneer's Descendant Dies
LEWIS VRADENBURG
Lewis Lymann Vradenburg, a lifelong area resident whose pioneer great-grandfather homesteaded a farm on Eight Mile road near Napier road, died Sunday at University convalescent home where he had been taken a week ago.
Mr. Vradenburg, who would have been 87 on February 24, had a colorful career which included an acquaintanceship with the late Henry Ford. His son, William A. Vradenburg, recalls seeing Mr. Ford stop to chat with his father who operated an early steam engine at Northville's Ford valve plant. The engine, he has been told, now is in the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn. It was one of the features at the Northville plant in which Mr. Ford maintained a high interest.
Mr. Vradenburg's early days were spent as a chief engineer on Great Lakes' freighters. His son remembers his telling of great storms on the lakes. In one shipwreck Mr. Vradenburg was one of the sole survivors.
Funeral services were scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Until Mr. Vradenburg became ill six months ago, he lived at 435 Eaton drive, Northville.
He was born February 24, 1881, in Novi to Jennie Flint and Albert Vradenburg. His wife, Margaret, preceded him in death.
He was a retired steam engineer from the Ford Motor company valve plant, a member of the First Methodist church, a life member of F & A M lodge No. 186.
The funeral was to be at Casterline funeral home with the Reverend S. D. Kinde officiating. Burial was to be in Rural Hill cemetery. A Masonic service Was scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday.
He leaves his son and a daughter, Mrs. Jeanette Stamann, both of Northville; two sisters, Mrs. Blanch Leverington, Hannibal, Missouri, and Mrs. Ruth Fish, 29 Palms, California; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The Northville Record
Northville, Michigan
Thursday, 8 February 1968
page 4-A, column 4
Pioneer's Descendant Dies
LEWIS VRADENBURG
Lewis Lymann Vradenburg, a lifelong area resident whose pioneer great-grandfather homesteaded a farm on Eight Mile road near Napier road, died Sunday at University convalescent home where he had been taken a week ago.
Mr. Vradenburg, who would have been 87 on February 24, had a colorful career which included an acquaintanceship with the late Henry Ford. His son, William A. Vradenburg, recalls seeing Mr. Ford stop to chat with his father who operated an early steam engine at Northville's Ford valve plant. The engine, he has been told, now is in the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn. It was one of the features at the Northville plant in which Mr. Ford maintained a high interest.
Mr. Vradenburg's early days were spent as a chief engineer on Great Lakes' freighters. His son remembers his telling of great storms on the lakes. In one shipwreck Mr. Vradenburg was one of the sole survivors.
Funeral services were scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Until Mr. Vradenburg became ill six months ago, he lived at 435 Eaton drive, Northville.
He was born February 24, 1881, in Novi to Jennie Flint and Albert Vradenburg. His wife, Margaret, preceded him in death.
He was a retired steam engineer from the Ford Motor company valve plant, a member of the First Methodist church, a life member of F & A M lodge No. 186.
The funeral was to be at Casterline funeral home with the Reverend S. D. Kinde officiating. Burial was to be in Rural Hill cemetery. A Masonic service Was scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday.
He leaves his son and a daughter, Mrs. Jeanette Stamann, both of Northville; two sisters, Mrs. Blanch Leverington, Hannibal, Missouri, and Mrs. Ruth Fish, 29 Palms, California; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The Northville Record
Northville, Michigan
Thursday, 8 February 1968
page 4-A, column 4
OBITUARIES
Pioneer's Descendant Dies
LEWIS VRADENBURG
Lewis Lymann Vradenburg, a lifelong area resident whose pioneer great-grandfather homesteaded a farm on Eight Mile road near Napier road, died Sunday at University convalescent home where he had been taken a week ago.
Mr. Vradenburg, who would have been 87 on February 24, had a colorful career which included an acquaintanceship with the late Henry Ford. His son, William A. Vradenburg, recalls seeing Mr. Ford stop to chat with his father who operated an early steam engine at Northville's Ford valve plant. The engine, he has been told, now is in the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn. It was one of the features at the Northville plant in which Mr. Ford maintained a high interest.
Mr. Vradenburg's early days were spent as a chief engineer on Great Lakes' freighters. His son remembers his telling of great storms on the lakes. In one shipwreck Mr. Vradenburg was one of the sole survivors.
Funeral services were scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Until Mr. Vradenburg became ill six months ago, he lived at 435 Eaton drive, Northville.
He was born February 24, 1881, in Novi to Jennie Flint and Albert Vradenburg. His wife, Margaret, preceded him in death.
He was a retired steam engineer from the Ford Motor company valve plant, a member of the First Methodist church, a life member of F & A M lodge No. 186.
The funeral was to be at Casterline funeral home with the Reverend S. D. Kinde officiating. Burial was to be in Rural Hill cemetery. A Masonic service Was scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday.
He leaves his son and a daughter, Mrs. Jeanette Stamann, both of Northville; two sisters, Mrs. Blanch Leverington, Hannibal, Missouri, and Mrs. Ruth Fish, 29 Palms, California; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The Northville Record
Northville, Michigan
Thursday, 8 February 1968
page 4-A, column 4
Pioneer's Descendant Dies
LEWIS VRADENBURG
Lewis Lymann Vradenburg, a lifelong area resident whose pioneer great-grandfather homesteaded a farm on Eight Mile road near Napier road, died Sunday at University convalescent home where he had been taken a week ago.
Mr. Vradenburg, who would have been 87 on February 24, had a colorful career which included an acquaintanceship with the late Henry Ford. His son, William A. Vradenburg, recalls seeing Mr. Ford stop to chat with his father who operated an early steam engine at Northville's Ford valve plant. The engine, he has been told, now is in the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn. It was one of the features at the Northville plant in which Mr. Ford maintained a high interest.
Mr. Vradenburg's early days were spent as a chief engineer on Great Lakes' freighters. His son remembers his telling of great storms on the lakes. In one shipwreck Mr. Vradenburg was one of the sole survivors.
Funeral services were scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Until Mr. Vradenburg became ill six months ago, he lived at 435 Eaton drive, Northville.
He was born February 24, 1881, in Novi to Jennie Flint and Albert Vradenburg. His wife, Margaret, preceded him in death.
He was a retired steam engineer from the Ford Motor company valve plant, a member of the First Methodist church, a life member of F & A M lodge No. 186.
The funeral was to be at Casterline funeral home with the Reverend S. D. Kinde officiating. Burial was to be in Rural Hill cemetery. A Masonic service Was scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday.
He leaves his son and a daughter, Mrs. Jeanette Stamann, both of Northville; two sisters, Mrs. Blanch Leverington, Hannibal, Missouri, and Mrs. Ruth Fish, 29 Palms, California; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The Northville Record
Northville, Michigan
Thursday, 8 February 1968
page 4-A, column 4
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