Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Adkinson, Luella (Hopkins) 2004
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 26 Oct 2004

Luella Adkinson (Hopkins) age 93, passed away on Monday, October 25, 2004.  She
was born the youngest of five girls on April 6, 1911 in Cass County, Indiana,
the daughter of Webster W. and Emma (McCracken) Hopkins.  She married Ross
Adkinson and he preceded her in death in 1976.  Also preceding her in death were
four sisters and one brother.

Luella graduated from Young America Indiana High School in 1929 and Arthur
Jordon Conservatory of Music and Butler University in 1933.  She began teaching
violin and piano just after high school and continued that most of her life. 
She taught in the Indiana schools 11 years before coming to Michigan in 1960,
where she organized the Palo Community School Band and taught music and math for
19 years.  She was a member of Palo Methodist Church where she was a choir
member since 1962, and served as pianist and assistant organist.  Mrs. Adkinson
organized a junior choir in 1962, which she directed for three years.  She also
sang for three years in the Ionia Community Choir when it was first organized.

Surviving are two children, David (Carol) Adkinson of Palo and Sarah (Fred)
Carlson of Royal Center, Indiana; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren;
one niece and one nephew.

The funeral service will be conducted by the Rev. Kenneth Harger, Pastor at 11
a.m. Thursday at the Shiloh Community Church.  Interment will follow at Palo
Cemetery.  The family will receive friends at the Schrauben-Lehman Funeral Home
in Ionia from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.  For those desiring, memorial contributions
may be made to the Palo Community Schools Music Department, in memory of Mrs.
Luella H. Adkinson.


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