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Personal data Marion Lavern Viers 

• He was born on November 12, 1886 in Royalton Twp., Fulton Co., OH.
• Resident:
• on April 11, 1919: Lima, Allen Co., OH.
• on December 23, 1948: Columbus Ave. at Perkins, Sandusky, Erie Co., OH.
• He died on December 24, 1948 in Erie Twp., Ottawa Co., OH (just e. of Camp Perry), he was 62 years old.
• He is buried on December 28, 1948 in No. Olmsted, Cuyahoga Co., OH (Butternut Ridge Cem.).
• A child of James Leroy Viers and Sarah Laderna Collins
• This information was last updated on July 13, 2025.

Household of Marion Lavern Viers

He is married to Maude Ethel Alvord.

They got married on June 20, 1913 at Erie Co., OH, he was 26 years old.

Marion Lavern Viers oo Maude Ethel Alvord

Marriage source: Hill, Shirley, Hill GEDCOM file, (Phoenix AZ, S.D.H., xii Jan MM)

Hanna, Jackie, "The Alwood Family Tree -- William Allwood (Alwood) descendants", (Portage MI, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=alwoodtree&id=I11848, vi Mar MMXI)

"... Name: Maude Ethel ALVORD Sex: F Birth: 9 JUN 1890 in Mentor, Lake Co, Ohio Note: death cert gives bp as Painesville, also in Lake Co. ... Death: 24 DEC 1948 in Erie Twp, Ottawa Co, Ohio

Note: result of car acciden (with husband) informant Marion L Viers Jr

Burial: 28 DEC 1948 Butternut Ridge Cem, North Olmsted, Cuyahoga Co, Ohio NAMM: Viers Change Date: 6 MAR 2011 ... Marriage 1 Marion Laverne VIERS b: 12 NOV 1886 in Royalton, Fulton Co, Ohio Married: 20 JUN 1913 in Erie Co, Ohio ..." <>

Child(ren):

1. Juanita M. Viers  1914-1918
2. Marion L. Viers  1915-1983
3. Velma Marie Viers  1917-1988 
4. Charles R. Viers  1921-1923
5. Lydia Marie Viers  1926-1948 

Notes about Marion Lavern Viers

Marion Lavern Viers

Sources: Author: Hill, Shirley; Title: Hill GEDCOM file, (Publication site: Phoenix AZ, Publisher: SDH, Publication date: xii Jan MM)

cf. Author: Klaus, Terry; Title: «u»The Family Alwood«/u», (Publication site: Crescent City CA, Publisher: TK, Publication date: June MCMXCI), pg 8, repository: Dallas TX pub. lib.

cf. Author: Stahl, Harriet; Title: «u»The Family of Johann Jacob Stahl, Sr. of LeHigh Co., PA«/u», (Publication site: Mt. Vernon IN, Publisher: Windmill Pub Inc, Publication date: MCMXCV), pg 309, Repository: Lenig-Focht Lib., New Bloomfield PA.

cf. Author: Stringfellow, Helena; Title: «u»The Alwood Family Tree«/u», (Publication site: Grantville PA, Publisher: Wert Bookbinding, Publication date: MCMXCVI), pg II-FGS-114, repository: Dallas TX pub. lib.

Author: Letwin, Ruth; Butternut Ridge Cemetery readings, (Publication site, Publisher: USGenWeb Archives, Publication date: xx July MMII)

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/cuyahoga/cemetery/butternut.txt read Easter, 2004

"CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO-BUTTERNUT RIDGE CEMETERY ... Viers Marion 1886 1948 Viers Maude 1892 1948 Viers Charles 1920 1923"

Author: Hill, Shirley; Title: e-mail to David A. Navorska, (Publication site: Grand Junction CO, Publisher: SH, Publication date: iv May MMIV)

"... I knew that Marion and Maud died the same year along with their youngest daughter, her husband and their two little kids in a car accident the day before Christmas. ..."

The following newspaper clipping was sent to me by Shirley Hill of Fruita CO.

Bellevue [OH] Gazette, 27 Dec 1948, pg 1 col 7:

"6 Members of Family Are Killed

Six members of a Sandusky family, former residents here were killed in a traffic crash Christmas Eve while enroute to spend the holiday with relatives in Birmingham, Mich., on Route 2, three miles west of Port Clinton. Dead are Mr andMrs. Curtis Armitage, Route 1, Sandusky; their two children, Robert, three years and Beverly, six months, and Mrs. Armitage's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion L. Viers, Sr., also of Ropute 1 Sandusky.

Mr. Armitage, 26, had been an employe of the American Baler Co. here almost since its beginning four years ago. The pland and office were both closed this afternoon to permit employes to attend the funeral services for Mr. and Mrs.Armitage and their two children in Attica.

Men of the company were pallbearers, and the funeral services were private except for members of the family and the employes of the plant and office.

Mr. and Mrs. Viers were former residents of the city also, having moved to Sandusky about five years ago. The two families lived together in a home on Columbus Ave., at the corner of Perkins and Columbus Ave. at the city limits ofSandusky. Mr. Armitage, a Nave veteran, commuted to his work here. * * * The two families were enroute to spend the holiday with Mrs. Armitage's brother, Marion Viers, Jr., and his wife, the former Evelyn DeHart, both of whom formerly resided here. Mrs. Armitage, 23, the former Lydia Viers, was graduated fromBellevue High School in 1943 and was employed at the Northern Ohio Telephone Co. before her marriage.

Funeral services for the Viers will be held Tuesday [28 Dec 1948] in the Frey Funeral Home, Sandusky, at 10 a.m. and burial will be in Butternut Ridge Cemetery, North Olmstead. Services this afternoon for the Armitage family were held inthe Weaver Funeral Home, Attica, at 2 p.m. and burial was in Attica Cemetery.

According to locat State Patrolman Joseph Swartz who investigated the crash the driver of the truck involved in the crash is in critical condition in Magruder Hospital, Port Clinton. He is Robert E. Dawes, 33, Sandusky, and he sufferedthe loss of an arm, a fractured skull and shock. A passenger in the truck, Joseph H. Boudreau, 25, Hudson, was not hurt.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur O. Pike, Toledo, and thier children, Janice, five, and Gregory, six months, occupants of the third vehicle involved in the crash, suffered minor injuries. * * * The truck and tractor, operated east by Mr. Dawes, passed the Pike car, also going east. The Armitage car, enroute west, swung to the left to avoid a collision, but was struck on the right side by the truck. The blow ripped the sidefrom the car. The car then struck the Pike automobile broadside, rolling it over. The Armitage car was demolished. All of the family were believed instantly killed with the exception of the three-year-old Robert, who died several hourslater in Magruder Hospital, the State Patrolman said.

The truck careened out of control for over a 100 feet and upset. Mr. Dawes' arm was caught beneath the wreckage until a wrecking crew lifted the vehicle from the limb. * * * The accident happened at 8 p.m. just east of Camp Perry.

Ralston Armitage, a brother of the dead man, is also employed at the local plant. Parents of the dead youth are Mr. and Mrs. John Armitage. Two sisters and trhee brothers survive.

The Viers are survived by their son, Marion Jr., and an daughter, Mrs. Carl Lapp of Hawthorne, Calif., also a former resident here. Mrs. Viers, 57, has three sisters, Mr. Viers, 61, has no immediate survivors."

The Sandusky Register, Sandusky OH, Sat. 12 Apr 1919 Pg. 8

"Deaths-Funerals Mrs. Wm. H. Havice, died at her residence on the Bellevue-rd on Friday evening at 8 o'clock, aged 52 years. Surviving relatives besides her widower are ... and two sons, Marion L. Viers, of Lima; ... six grandchildren ..."
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