Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Benjamin, Agnes (DeGroot) July 29, 1966 ************************************************ 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: Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com July 13, 2016, 1:02 am Daily Sentinel-Standard - Monday, Aug. 1, 1966 Mrs. Agnes Benjamin, 86, formerly of route one, Saranac, died Friday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jewell Swanberg of Fort Myers, Fla. She was born July 15, 1880, in Grand Rapids to Mr. and Mrs. S.J. DeGroot. She was married January 1, 1903, to Frank Benjamin, who died August 4, 1954. Mrs. Benjamin spent her married life in Saranac. For the past five years she has lived with her daughter in Florida. She leaves three sons, Lester and Sherie of Saranac and Lyle of Ionia; two daughters, Mrs. Anna Baker of Holt and Mrs. Jewel Swanberg of Fort Myers, Fla.; 22 grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren; two brothers, John DeGroot of Winona, Minn., and Oliver DeGroot of Grand Rapids, and two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Heyboer and Mrs. Harriet Twerst of Grand Rapids. Services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Morris-Roetman funeral home with burial in Saranac cemetery. Rev. Elton Mills of Evart will officiate. Additional Comments: Services: Wednesday 3 Aug. 1966 Saranac cemetery #5N File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/benjamin33235nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb