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OBITUARY

WILLIAM PERNIA

Special to The Monroe Evening News

LA SALLE, Feb. 14 - William Pernia, 68 years old and a lifetime resident of Monroe county, died at 10:30 p.m. at his home on the Stein road, two and a half miles west of Telegraph road. He had been ill for about three weeks.

Mr. Pernia operated a threshing machine for the last 13 years in addition to his active farm work. He served LaSalle township as a highway commissioner for ten years.

Mr. Pernia was born in Berlin township April 20, 1867. He was married to Cora Leonard in 1895 and she survives him in addition to nine children. nine grandchildren and a brother Levi Pernia of Toledo. The children are Mrs. Clarence Segur and Mrs. Delbert Wood, both of Erie; Mrs. George Poupard of Monroe; Nicholas and Thalia of Detroit; Raymond, Arthur. William and Donald, living at home.

Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph Church in Ida with the Rev. Fr. Charles Dohring officiating and burial will be in St Joseph's cemetery. The body was taken to the Allor and Beam funeral home in Monoe and will be returned to the Pernia home this afternoon.

This obituary can be found in the obit file in the Monroe Historical Museum, marriage and death record at Monroe County Courthouse. Birth record found in church records for St. Charles.

The majority of information for most of the ancestors of William Pernia and Cora Leonard and the numerous French people in this genealogy can be found in the publications Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701 - 1911 published 1976; and the revision Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701 -1936 published 1987.