John C. Purdue

PURDUE John C. John C. Purdue, age 88, of Ottawa Hills died October 7, 2009. John was born in Lafayette, Indiana in 1921 to Sam and Marie Purdue. He attended the University of Michigan where he met Suzanne E. Cone, his one true love. They married in 1942 and Suzanne predeceased him in 2007, just days before their sixty-fifth anniversary. At Michigan, he ran track and earned degrees in English and Chemical Engineering. He went on to earn his law degree at the University of Toledo and became a patent attorney in 1950. He practiced in Toledo except when, at the beginning of his career, he worked for a brief time in the patent department at Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan. At the December, 2009 Toledo Bar Association Holiday Luncheon, he was to have been honored as a sixty year member of the Association. He enjoyed the water immensely and he liked to fish. John was a gentleman and a family man. He is survived by four sons, John Jr., William and his wife, Ellen, David and his wife, Catherine and Paul and his wife, Barbara; a daughter, Susan Tanner and her husband, Scott; and numerous grandchildren and great-grand-children. There will be no visitation. There will be a memorial service at Collingwood Presbyterian Church in Toledo at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 17th, 2009, with a reception to follow. The family suggests that any tribute be in the form of a contribution to the church or to a charity of the donor's choice.