Stories from Friday, September 8, 2017

Jerrylean “Jerry” Ivester, age 89, of Onaway, Mich., died on Tuesday September 5, 2017, at Bay Bluffs Emmet County Medical Care Facility in Harbor Springs, Mich. The daughter of Loy and Zora (Underwood) Watson, Jerrylean was born at home near Pollard, in Clay County, Ark., on August 20, 1928. She married Bert Ivester on July 28, 1944, in Piggott, Ark., and in 1970 they moved to the Onaway area from Howell, Mich. They were blessed with 50 years of marriage at the time of Bert’s death in 1994...