Nina G. Detwiler's obituary, Harrison, Clare County, Michigan

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Obituary from Clare County Cleaver, Harrison, Mich. Dec. 16, 1999

Nina G. Detwiler passed away Thursday, December 9, 1999, age 86 years.
Nina Goldie Detwiler was born February 22, 1913 in Grant, Micigan to
Jacob Harvey and Jamima (Lackie) Detwiler.  They predeceased her.
     She was a member of First Free Methodist Church in Saginaw.  Nina
moved with her family to Corunna, Michigan when she was three years
old.  Her parents and the family moved to a farm in Henderson, Michigan
in 1920.  Her first year of high school was in Clare, Michigan, and the
last two years were in Freesoil, Micigan.
    Nina enrolled in the Saginaw General Hospital School of Nursing in
1932 and graduated as a registered nurse in 1935.  She worked as a
private duty nurse and at Saginaw General Hospital as a supervisor.
     She attended Spring Arbor Junior College in 1946 to prepare to go
to Lundi Mission in Southern Rhodesia, Africa as a Medical Missionary
Nurse.  She worked for the Free Methodist Mission Board from 1947 to
1964.  For the next few years she worked at Hoyt Nursing Home in
Saginaw, and Hampton Nursing Home, Bay City, and later for Malleable
Iron Central Foundry, retiring in March, 1978.
     Surviving are three nieces and their husbands; Ruth M. (Roy)
Willoughby of Chesaning, Amy I. (Harold) Brandt of Saginaw, Mary E.
(Earl) Weeden of Elsie, a brother Ralph (Ruth) Detwiler of Alma, and
several nieces and nephews and many friends.  Nina was predeceased by
her brother Orie Detwiler in 1947, her sister Aleta M. Detwiler Smith in
1977.
     Funeral service took, place 11:00 am Monday, at the Free Methodist
Church,   2625 North Center Rd, Saginaw; Rev. Paul I. Armstrong
officiated.  Interment took plac at Cherry Grove Cemetery in Clare,
Michigan.  Memorial offerings may be given to the Free Methodist Church,
or the First Free Methodist Mission of Luther Manor, Saginaw.