Petoskey Rug Company and Guest Home located at 524 Petoskey Street.
BIOGRAPHY
Mr. and Mrs. Gokee and his sister, Margaret Welsh, operated a large guest home at 524 Petoskey Street. It was located on the corner of Petoskey and State Street. Today it is no longer there. It was replaced by the Petoskey Professional Building.
Every summer their guests sat on chairs lined up along the long covered porch that faced 513 Petoskey Street. They visited and laughed all day long. The neighbors believed the summer guests were Jewish women who suffered from hay fever. Whether or not other guests came during the off season, is not known.
Mr. Gokee died at Lockwood General Hospital after being a patient for three weeks. He was known as an early pioneer businessman in Petoskey. He came to the village from New York as a small boy. He married Pearl L. Rice, June 1902. They made their home in in Petoskey and he operated the Petoskey Rug Company which he sold. He was a past grand and veteran life member of Petoskey I.O.O. F., No. 282. and the Wequetonsing Encampment and the United Methodist Church. He was survived by his wife, his daughter, Helen Cannon of Petoskey, a daughter Barbara of Detroit, a daughter Virginia of Miami, and a son, Tom of Roanoke, Virginia; seventeen grand chlldren, nine great-grand children, and a sister, Margaret Welsh, who resided for many years in his former home on Petoskey and State Streets.
His complete obituary can be read at Petoskey's Greenwood Cemetery Site:http://www.gwood.us/genealogical-research/#.
BIOGRAPHY
Mr. and Mrs. Gokee and his sister, Margaret Welsh, operated a large guest home at 524 Petoskey Street. It was located on the corner of Petoskey and State Street. Today it is no longer there. It was replaced by the Petoskey Professional Building.
Every summer their guests sat on chairs lined up along the long covered porch that faced 513 Petoskey Street. They visited and laughed all day long. The neighbors believed the summer guests were Jewish women who suffered from hay fever. Whether or not other guests came during the off season, is not known.
Mr. Gokee died at Lockwood General Hospital after being a patient for three weeks. He was known as an early pioneer businessman in Petoskey. He came to the village from New York as a small boy. He married Pearl L. Rice, June 1902. They made their home in in Petoskey and he operated the Petoskey Rug Company which he sold. He was a past grand and veteran life member of Petoskey I.O.O. F., No. 282. and the Wequetonsing Encampment and the United Methodist Church. He was survived by his wife, his daughter, Helen Cannon of Petoskey, a daughter Barbara of Detroit, a daughter Virginia of Miami, and a son, Tom of Roanoke, Virginia; seventeen grand chlldren, nine great-grand children, and a sister, Margaret Welsh, who resided for many years in his former home on Petoskey and State Streets.
His complete obituary can be read at Petoskey's Greenwood Cemetery Site:http://www.gwood.us/genealogical-research/#.
Petoskey Rug Company and Guest Home located at 524 Petoskey Street.
BIOGRAPHY
Mr. and Mrs. Gokee and his sister, Margaret Welsh, operated a large guest home at 524 Petoskey Street. It was located on the corner of Petoskey and State Street. Today it is no longer there. It was replaced by the Petoskey Professional Building.
Every summer their guests sat on chairs lined up along the long covered porch that faced 513 Petoskey Street. They visited and laughed all day long. The neighbors believed the summer guests were Jewish women who suffered from hay fever. Whether or not other guests came during the off season, is not known.
Mr. Gokee died at Lockwood General Hospital after being a patient for three weeks. He was known as an early pioneer businessman in Petoskey. He came to the village from New York as a small boy. He married Pearl L. Rice, June 1902. They made their home in in Petoskey and he operated the Petoskey Rug Company which he sold. He was a past grand and veteran life member of Petoskey I.O.O. F., No. 282. and the Wequetonsing Encampment and the United Methodist Church. He was survived by his wife, his daughter, Helen Cannon of Petoskey, a daughter Barbara of Detroit, a daughter Virginia of Miami, and a son, Tom of Roanoke, Virginia; seventeen grand chlldren, nine great-grand children, and a sister, Margaret Welsh, who resided for many years in his former home on Petoskey and State Streets.
His complete obituary can be read at Petoskey's Greenwood Cemetery Site:http://www.gwood.us/genealogical-research/#.
BIOGRAPHY
Mr. and Mrs. Gokee and his sister, Margaret Welsh, operated a large guest home at 524 Petoskey Street. It was located on the corner of Petoskey and State Street. Today it is no longer there. It was replaced by the Petoskey Professional Building.
Every summer their guests sat on chairs lined up along the long covered porch that faced 513 Petoskey Street. They visited and laughed all day long. The neighbors believed the summer guests were Jewish women who suffered from hay fever. Whether or not other guests came during the off season, is not known.
Mr. Gokee died at Lockwood General Hospital after being a patient for three weeks. He was known as an early pioneer businessman in Petoskey. He came to the village from New York as a small boy. He married Pearl L. Rice, June 1902. They made their home in in Petoskey and he operated the Petoskey Rug Company which he sold. He was a past grand and veteran life member of Petoskey I.O.O. F., No. 282. and the Wequetonsing Encampment and the United Methodist Church. He was survived by his wife, his daughter, Helen Cannon of Petoskey, a daughter Barbara of Detroit, a daughter Virginia of Miami, and a son, Tom of Roanoke, Virginia; seventeen grand chlldren, nine great-grand children, and a sister, Margaret Welsh, who resided for many years in his former home on Petoskey and State Streets.
His complete obituary can be read at Petoskey's Greenwood Cemetery Site:http://www.gwood.us/genealogical-research/#.
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