Name changes don’t always mean much, but to the new owner of the Portage funeral home located at 302 E. Conant, change signals stability. Kratz Funeral Home, formerly Picha Funeral Home, is under the ...

Yates Sr., Donald Ray age 67, a longtime resident of Portage passed away on Monday, December 20, 2010. He was born on October 5, 1943 in Hammond the son of Charles and Helen Yates. Don worked as a ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Funeral services are being held today, Wednesday, Sept. 21 for a motorcyclist killed in a crash on Ravine Road Friday, Sept. 16. Samuel Ray Bierlein, 39, of Portage died when his ...

Eddy, 67, lived in Portage for more than 30 years. According to the obituary in Tuesday's Kalamazoo Gazette, Eddy was born in Grosse Pointe, Mich., on July 1, 1946, to Raymond and Cadais (Owen) Eddy.