EX-MONTPELIER RESIDENT DIES

Rites Friday For Ira S. Kannel, 67

Funeral services for Ira S. Kannel, 67, of Toledo and Lake James, Indiana who died Tuesday morning in St. Luke’s Hospital in Toledo, will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Church of Christ in Angola where he was an active member.

            Mr. Kannel, who was sales supervisor for the Heckman Biscuit Co., was stricken Tuesday en-route home from Detroit where he had attended a sales meeting.

            He was born in Covett, Ohio and he, his family resided south of Montpelier; on a farm for many years before they moved to Toledo 14 years ago.

            Survivors include his wife Phyllis, son, Ira S. of Montpelier; and Jerold of Angola; three daughters, Mrs. Priscilla King of Charlotte, Mich.; Mrs. Connie Morgan of Los Angeles and Mrs. Judy Greer of Joplin, Mo., and eight grandchildren.

            The body was taken to the Ansberg-West Funeral Home in Toledo and today was transferred to Angola to Weicht where friends may call.

            Richard Burton minister of Angola Church of Christ and Thomas W Overton of Toledo Church of Christ will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Circle Hill Cemetery, Angola.

(from the Bryan Times, May 31, 1957)