Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bixby, Blanche A. 1961 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net August 28, 2012, 4:38 pm The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, June 26, 1961 Funeral service for Mrs. Blanche A. Bixby, 74, of 230 East Main street, Saranac, will be held at Stone-Kauffman funeral home at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon. She died Saturday afternoon at Ionia County Memorial hospital where she had been a patient several days. She was a resident of Easton township more than 50 years and had celebrated her 55th wedding anniversary. She was born June 18, 1887 in Berlin township the daughter of Charles and Mary Doty, and was married in Orleans March 19, 1906. She was a member of Saranac community church. Survivors include her husband, Ray; four daughters, Mrs. Cecil (Jessie) Stevens of Wacousta, Mrs. Arthur Jackson of route two, Belding, Mrs. Howard Shaeffer of Muir, and Mrs. Merlin Dingman of Durand; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Allen Doty of Belding, and Hubert Doty of Ionia; three sisters, Mrs. Maude Howe and Mrs. Ernest Chickering, both of route two, Belding, and Mrs. Cora Rogers of Orleans. Rev. Howard Bull will officiate and burial will be at Easton cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bixby19068nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb