Tag: Pickford

Genevieve Smith

Genevieve LuElla Smith, age 51, of Kinross, Michigan, died on June 24, 2021, at her home. She was born on January 2, 1970, in Jellico, Tennessee, to John Denver Smith and LuElla Mae (Nedeau) Brown. Genevieve grew up in Tennessee until she was about fifteen when her family moved to […]

Nancy Reno

Nancy Jane (Knoy) Reno, age 82, of Hessel, Michigan, passed away peacefully, Satur-day, June 26, 2021, at War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. She was born in Detroit, Michigan, May 19, 1939, to Clarence Gerald and Ruth Marie (Sullivan) Knoy. She attended Cedarville High School and graduated in […]

Nathaniel “Tanny” Raymond Armstrong

Nathaniel “Tanny” Raymond Armstrong, age 87, of Barbeau, Michigan, died July 1, 2021, at EUP Hospice House in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. He was born August 15, 1933, to Whitford Dyer Armstrong and Verna Elizabeth (Smith) Armstrong at the home of his mother’s sister, Cora and Bill Stirling, on Hursley […]

Willard Bumstead

Willard Eugene Bumstead, age 76, of Hessel, Michigan, died on Monday, May 31, 2021, at Medilodge of Gaylord in Gaylord, Michigan. He was born on February 8, 1945, in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to Floyd and Betty (Perkins) Bumstead. Willard was raised on the family farm on Hay Lake Road […]

Accident claims 20-year-old local resident

On 6-17-2021 starting at approximately 759 pm Chippewa County Central Dispatch started receiving multiple 911 calls. The calls were reporting reckless driving of a truck starting in the Pickford area heading north towards Sault Ste Marie. The 911 callers, advised the truck was driving at very high speeds, running off […]

William Alguire III

William Thomas Alguire III, born January 11,1943 in Flint, Michigan, to Mary Elizabeth Bradley Alguire and William Thomas Alguire, Jr., passed away on June 4, 2021, at his home on Drummond Island, Michigan. Bill, or Wild Bill as he was known to some, graduated from Flint Northern High School and […]

James Sorenson

James Thomas “Big Swede” Sorenson, age 66, of St. Ignace, Michigan, passed away peacefully with his family by his side on June 5, 2021, at his home. He was born in St. Ignace, on December 9, 1954, to Sterling (Bud) and Eudene (Paquin) Sorenson. Jimmy grew up and lived in […]

Ryan Currie

Ryan Leonard Currie, 49 years old, of Hessel, Michigan, passed away peacefully on Memorial Day morning, May 31, 2021.He was born in St. Ignace, Michigan, on September 11, 1971. He was sick for a short while and was brave about his illness. He did not want to worry the family, […]

LuElla Libby

LuElla Jane (Ruperd) Libby, age 95, of Pickford, Michigan, passed away in her sleep on Friday morning, June 4, 2021, at her home. She was born on July 23, 1925, in Newberry, Michigan, to Alfred and Zadie (Wittenmyer) Ruperd. LuElla grew up on a fox farm in Newberry next to […]

Wilson H. Anderson

Wilson H. Anderson entered the presence of his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on June 6, 2021, released from the physical and mental confines of Parkinson’s and meeting his Savior face to face.   Wilson was born on Drummond Island on June 21, 1929 to Henry and Isabel Anderson. His […]