Maurice Voice, 57, prominent Fife Lake businessman, died of a heart attack while hunting in Fife Lake Township Thursday afternoon, Nov 17. Hunting with James Taylor and Andrew Wyse, both of Dearborn, Mr. Voice left the party around two o’clock Thursday afternoon to track a deer. His body was found at eight o’clock that evening in a fire lane by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Daniels of Fife Lake. Dr. G. Edward Stokes, coroner, of Traverse City, was summoned and announced death was due to natural causes, probably a heart attack. Mr. Voice was born January 4, 1898, in Denver, Colo. In 1910 he came with his parents to Kinsley and settled on a farm. In November 22, 1924, he was united in marriage to Lillian Stampfler of Fife Lake and to this union were born two children. A son died in infancy. Mr. Voice operated the Voice Brothers auto sales in Fife Lake for 35 years and sold cars and trucks for 27 years. He was a member of the county board of education from the time of its organization and served on the Fife Lake school board for 18 years. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Fife Lake American Legion. He was also a member of the Fife Lake Order of the Odd Fellows No. 359. He had handled the wholesale delivery of all Detroit, Grand Rapids and Chicago Sunday papers since 1935. Surviving, besides his widow Lillian, are one son at home, one brother, Ernest Voice of Kingsley; two sisters, Mrs. Florence Baldwin of Kingsley and Mrs. Laura Courtade of Charlevoix; and many other relatives. Mr. Voice was taken to the Smith Funeral Home in Kinsley.
