Clare County MI Archives Obituaries.....Albina Adell Orvis, Gerow January 29, 1955 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Janet Wilkinson Schwartz wilkinschw@aol.com March 18, 2007, 1:21 pm 1955 Clare newspaper clipping from scrapbook Death Claims Mrs. A. Gerow Albina Adell Orvis, daughter of Riley and Martha Orvis, was born March 19, 1865 at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and passed away at Clare, Michigan January 29, 1955 at the age of 89 years, 10 months and 10 days. She was the oldest child in the family of eleven children. Four brothers; William, Claude, Burt and James, and one sister, Gettie Langworthy have passed away. At the age of seven years she came to Clare County with her parents and spent the greater part of life in this vicinity. On November 9, 1879, she was united in marriage to Stewart Wilson Gerow. They resided on their farm in Sheridan Township until 1922 when they moved to Loomis. To this union was born ten children, four preceded her in death; Ada Robinette, Collie and Donald, and an infant daughter. After her husband’s passing in April 1933, she spent the remainder of her life with her children. Those left to mourn her passing are her children, James Gerow, Mrs. Inez Teale, Mrs. Mary Hemstreet and Bernard Gerow of Sheridan, Mrs. Hilda Smith of Millington, Michigan, and Lloyd Gerow of Loomis. There are 23 grandchildren, 53 great grandchildren and 22 great great grandchildren. Also 2 sisters; Mrs. Ethel Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Mary Gerow and 3 brothers; Ervin and Eugene Orvis of Clare County and John Orvis of Battle Creek, besides a host of relatives and friends. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/clare/obits/a/albinaad1847gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb