Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Adams, Nellie M. 1961
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 26 Dec 1961

Nellie Adams, 87, died at 4:45 p.m., Sunday at Belding Community hospital where
she was a patient one week.  A resident of Orleans 44 years, she was born March
17, 1874 in Ronald township, near Palo.  She was the daughter of Emily and
George Adams.

Miss Adams attended Olivet college and teachers college at Ypsilanti and took
her teacher’s training in Ypsilanti schools before returning to teach in many
Ionia and Montcalm county schools.  She taught school in Palo and two years at
Carson City as a music teacher, majoring on the violin.  She also taught in
primary grades in Orleans three years before her retirement.

Miss Adams was a charter member of Orleans Literary and Art club, a member of
Orleans Methodist church and WSCS, and of the extension club of Orleans for many
years.  She was a member of Orleans Woman’s Christian Temperance Union until it
was discontinued.  Miss Adams was interested in art and enjoyed reading and
concert music.  For several years she gave violin lessons and played in
orchestras at different halls and churches in the area.  She was a correspondent
many years of The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard and several other newspapers of
the area.

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. John (Lenna) Pettit of Fenwick, and several cousins.

Funeral service will be Thursday at 2 p.m., at Stebbins funeral home and
Sheridan with interment at Palo cemetery.


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