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Funeral Notices for Feb. 25, 2013

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Funeral Notices for July 14, 2012

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Funeral Notices for Friday, July 6, 2012

Saturday Marian “Chicky” Anderson — 11 a.m., Johnson-Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding. Wednesday Erik Kiste — 11 a.m., Hurst Funeral Home, Greenville.

The gully: The site of Black Field was a deep gully in 1880. The Union School building looms in the foreground.

From a deep ravine to home of the Yellow Jackets

Greenville’s Black Field, site of many football games over the past 90-plus years, once was just a deep ravine. “Years ago what is now known as the Black Athletic Field was simply a gully left as the result of glacial action and was used for no purpose at all,” according to a paper by Wyman Bock in the archives of the Flat River Historical Society.

Dr. Duncan K. Black

Dr. Black’s interest in young people led to creation of field

Duncan K. Black was born March 8, 1861, in Belmont, Ontario. He received his medical training at the Michigan College of Medicine in Detroit, graduating in 1886, and later completed a post-graduate course at the New York School of Medicine.