Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bennett, Minnie C. (Kimball) 1946 ************************************************ 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 December 2, 2010, 11:58 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, 12 & 15 Jan 1946 Mrs. Minnie C. Bennett, 79, a resident of Lyons township all her life, died at her home north and east of Lyons Friday, January 11. Death came several months after she had suffered a fractured hip in a fall. Following the fall she was removed to Carson City hospital where she remained about nine weeks and was then removed to her home. Her death was attributed to pneumonia and complications from the hip injury. Mrs. Bennett was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kimball of Lyons and she was a graduate of Lyons high school and of Alma college. She taught several years in Ionia rural schools. She was married to Wilbur D. Bennett of Lyons December 29, 1892. His death occurred April 15, 1938. She was a member of the Lyons Methodist Episcopal church and of Evergreen chapter, OES, of Lyons. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Florence Cunningham, of Lansing; a grandson, Leon Cunningham; three great-grandchildren, one brother, Howard Kimball, of Ionia. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, January 14 at 2:00 o’clock p.m. at the Lyons Methodist church. The Rev. Gerald Jacobs will officiate. Interment will be in the family lot in Lyons cemetery. ---- Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie C. Bennett, who died Friday night, January 11, at her home northeast of Lyons were attended at the Lyons Methodist church Monday afternoon with the Rev. Gerald Jacobs officiating. Evergreen chapter, OES, of which Mrs. Bennett was a member, attended the services in a body, and had charge of the flowers and also formed a guard when the casket was carried from the church. The music was in charge of Mrs. G. H. Steadman of Lyons and her brother, Plyn Woodworth, of Muir with Mrs. Woodworth as accompanist. The bearers were Edward Peckens, Frederick Vogt of Portland, J. Fremont Spaulding of Muir, Dayton Friend, Ernest Clements and Francis Peckens of Lyons. Attending from away were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith and daughter, Vivian; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Herron, Mr. and Mrs. Ford Halsted, Mr. and Mrs. Vere Sutherland, Jesse Dolley and children, Earl, Dora and Dorothy, Oliver Hartman, all of Ionia; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kimball of Muir, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Bradley and two children, Robert and Helen, of Bloomfield Hills; Ellis Kimball of Lake Orion, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Cunningham and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Cunningham of Lansing, Mrs. Carle Beck of Crystal, Mrs. Ira Dickerson, Mrs. Fred Peters, Mrs. Mary McSellan of Ithaca, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Mygrants, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Harper of St. Johns, the Rev. and Mrs. M. E. Reusch, Mrs. Charles Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hartman of Grand Rapids, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Hartman of Three Rivers, Miss Gladys Hartman of Lansing, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Grice, N. E. Colwell and Miss Stella Stout of Midland, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Peckens and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vogt of Portland. Mrs. Bennett’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Martha Kimball, of Lake Odessa was unable to come because of illness, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. W. D. Hoffman, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was unable to be present. Interment was in the Lyons cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bennett9968nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb