Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bates, Joy Marlene 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net July 13, 2011, 11:16 am Ionia Sentinel Standard, 20 Apr 1955 Joy Marlene Bates, 13, of 206 ˝ Union street, died Tuesday morning at the Ionia County Memorial Hospital. She was born in Portland and had lived her entire life there until about one year ago when she and her mother moved to Ionia. She was a member of the Congregational church of Portland. Survivors are her mother, Mrs. Mildred Bates; two brothers, LaVern and Jack of Portland and a grandmother, Mrs. Pearl Kinney of Eureka, Montana. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Neller funeral home with the Rev. Richard Gardner of the Congregational church officiating. Burial will be in Portland cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bates14620nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb