Below you fill find all funeral homes and cemeteries in or near Idlewild.
Zip codes in the city: 49642.
Lake County funeral flowers can be purchased from one of the local funeral shops we partner with.
The Pruitt-Livingston Funeral Home has gone through several name changes since it’s inception. In 1922 John Ryan, a native of Paris, Mi. began a funeral chapel in Reed City. The funeral home evolved under the directorship of James Livingston...
Idlewild is a vacation and retirement community in Yates Township, located just east of Baldwin in southeast Lake County, a rural part of northwestern lower Michigan. During the first half of the 20th century, it was one of the few resorts in the country where African-Americans were allowed to vacation and purchase property, before such discrimination became illegal in 1964. It surrounds Idlewild Lake, and the headwaters of the Pere Marquette River run through the area. Much of the surrounding area is within Manistee National Forest.Called the \"Black Eden\", from 1912 through the mid-1960s, Idlewild was an active year-round community and was visited by well-known entertainers and professionals from throughout the country. At its peak it was the most popular resort in the Midwest and as many as 25,000 would come to Idlewild in the height of the summer season to enjoy camping, swimming, boating, fishing, hunting, horseback riding, roller skating, and night-time entertainment. When the 1964 Civil Rights Act opened up other resorts to African-Americans, Idlewild's boomtown period subsided, but the community continues to serve as a vacation destination and retirement community, and as a landmark of African-American heritage. The Idlewild African American Chamber of Commerce was founded in the summer of 2000 for the purpose of promoting existing local businesses and for attracting newer ones to the Lake County area.
It was noted by Flint Journal on March 14th, 2015 that Chester Dixon perished in Idlewild, Michigan. Dixon was 80 years old. Send flowers to express your sympathy and honor Chester's life.
Meeks for the purpose of promoting existing local businesses and for attracting newer ones to the Lake County area. The headwaters of the Pere Marquette River run through here, with a couple of public access points adjacent to Broadway Road, where it crosses.
When the 1964 Civil Rights Act opened up other resorts to African-Americans, Idlewild's boomtown period subsided but the community continues to be an important place for vacationers and retirees and as a heritage landmark. About half of the township is contained in the Manistee National Forest. Idlewild is a vacation and retirement community in Yates Township, Michigan Township located in a small rural northwestern part of the US state of Michigan near the southeastern border of Lake County, Michigan County.
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