Calhoun County MI Archives Obituaries.....Church, Lady Elizabeth Helen (Traynor) 1962
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Battle Creek Newspaper Jul. 8, 1962
         PAST RESIDENT DIES, MARRIED A NOBLEMAN

 A native of Battle Creek woman who became a member of England's
nobility, Lady Elizabeth Helen Church, about 77, wife of Sir
Jeoffrey Selby Church, a brigadier General in the British Army, died
last Sunday in Hatfieldshire, Hertz, England.
 She had been in ill health and bed-ridden in recent months.
 Lady Church was on of 10 children of John Luke and Mary (Whalen) Traynor.
After attending St. Phillip School here, she studied abroad. During 
World War 1 she was with the British Intelligence Service and met Sir
Jeoffrey. They were married March 3, 1920.
 She was later presented at the Court of St. James. In addition to
their manor house at Hatfieldshire, the Churches maintained a summer
home at the resort of Brighton and an apartment in London.
 Sir Jeoffrey is a graduate of Oxford Universty and served in the British
Army in both Wars.
 Lady Church was an Aunt of Mrs. Anna Sanford Snell of 123 North Ave.; Mrs. 
Forrest G. (Josephine) Fee of Detroit; Mrs. James (Blanche) Dunn of 212 Cherry 
St., Mrs. Jessie Finley of 41 Tennyson Ave.; Mrs. Roy (Catherine) Sissen of 131 
W. Terrotorial Road and Mrs. Ruth Evans of Bellevue.


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