Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Benedict, Greta 1967
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 27 Dec 1967

Funeral services for a former Ionia resident, Greta Benedict, will be Friday at
1:30 p.m. at Boynton funeral home with Rev. Robert McComb officiating. 
Interment will be in Highland Park cemetery.  Miss Benedict, 88, who was making
her home in East Lansing died Wednesday in a convalescent home there.

Born in Ionia, October 21, 1879 she was the daughter of O.M. Benedict and Sara
Yates Benedict and was a member of one of the oldest pioneer families of the
area.  She was a retired school teacher having attended Ypsilanti normal and
University of Chicago and taught at Mishawaka, Ind., South Bend, Ind., and moved
to Cleveland and taught and was principal in the Cleveland public school system
23 years, retiring in 1944.  She was a member of the First Christian church in
Ionia.

After leaving her home in Cleveland, she made her home with a niece Mrs. L.W.
Kelner in East Lansing.  Surviving besides her niece are two nephews.


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