Thomas "Tom" Yonker
1957 – 2026 · 69 · Maple Bend
Visitation Sunday, July 5, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. — Solemn Oaks Funeral Home, Maple Bend.
A family funeral home, one family at a time, since 1926.
Serving Maple Bend, Fremont, White Cloud, Newaygo, and the river towns of Newaygo County for a hundred years.
Obituaries
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Leonard "Len" Brandt
1933 – 2026 · 93 · Maple Bend
Services were held July 2 at Maple Bend Reformed Church, Maple Bend.
Marisol Vega Hendricks
1971 – 2026 · 54 · Maple Bend
Visitation and rosary Monday, July 6, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. — Solemn Oaks Funeral Home, Maple Bend.
Marcus Delgado
1996 – 2026 · 29 · Newaygo
Memorial gathering Sunday, July 5, 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. — Solemn Oaks Funeral Home — Gathering Room, Maple Bend.
The house under the oaks
Ellis Hartwell opened Hartwell Furniture & Undertaking on the square in 1926 — a cabinetmaker who built caskets first and learned, the way small towns ask, to carry everything that came with them. In 1968 the family moved the work to the white house under the oaks on Court Street and took the name the town already used for it. Four generations later it is still the Hartwells, still the oaks, still one family at a time.
What families say
“They treated my father like he was theirs. Margaret sat with my mother for an hour after everyone else left.”
“We came in with no idea what we could afford, and nobody made us feel it. Everything was on paper before we said yes to anything.”
“The livestream let my brother say goodbye from Okinawa. They set it up without being asked twice, and it just worked.”