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Willis (Porky) Bidwell
June 16, 1918-Jan. 15, 2000

CARLETON - Self-employed
truck driver Willis (Porky) Bidwell,
81, of Carleton died Saturday at
Oakwood Hospital, Seaway Center,
Trenton.

Friends may call until 9 tonight
at Arthur Bobcean Funeral Home,
Flat Rock, where
members of
Monroe Lodge
1503, Bevevolent
and _ Protective
Order of Elks, will
conduct a Lodge of
Sorrow at6 anda
prayer service at 7.
Funeral services :
will be held at 10 witus BipweLt
a.m. Tuesday at St.

Roch Catholic

Church, Flat Rock. The Rev.
Frederick Misiolek, pastor of the
church, will officiate. Burial will
be in Michigan Memorial Park,
Huron Township, under the aus-
pices of Carleton Post 4093,
Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Born June 16, 1918, in Detroit, he
was the son of Foster and Freda
(Painter) Bidwell. He married
Nathalia Reaume June 5, 1939, in
Napoleon, Ohio.

He served in the Navy during
World War Il and was a member of
Woodhaven Moose; Carleton Post
4093, VFW; Huron Valley Council
5446, Knights of Columbus, and
Flat Rock Lodge 1731, BPOE.

Surviving are his wife; a son,
Dale of Carleton; three daughters,
Nancy Spears of Florida, Yvonne
Harvell of South Rockwood and
Cherie Domigan of Monroe; a sis-
ter, Mary Ellen Kaatz of Mount
Clemens; seven grandchildren,
and six great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a
brother, John.

Memorials may be made to |
Mercy Memorial Hospice of
Monroe.