Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Blancharad, Adah (Simmons)   1935 April 11, 1935
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Portland Observer – Thursday, 11 April 1935
BLANCHARD, Adah (Simmons)   1935
DOD:  Thursday, 11 April 1935
Portland Observer – Thursday, 11 April 1935

Residents of Portland were greatly shocked this forenoon when word was passed 
around of the death of Mrs. Adah Jean Blanchard, who passed away at an early 
hour this morning at the home of her son, Chester S. Blanchard, on Grant 
Street.  She had been confined to her bed two weeks as the result of a fall on 
the sidewalk as she was on her way to the Methodist church to attend a supper 
being held there.

Mrs. Blanchard was born in Portland on the site now occupied by the Hotel 
Divine, 86 years ago.  Her father, David Simmons, concocted a hotel there at 
the time of her birth.  In early womanhood she was united in marriage to E. W. 
Blanchard, who died in 1913.

Mrs. Blanchard was a lifelong member of the Methodist church and a member of 
the Daughters of the American Revolution, her grandfather, Joshua Simmons, 
having been a Revolutionary war veteran, to whose memory a bronze marker was 
placed on his grave by Lansing chapter, D. A. R., in the Simmons cemetery in 
Eagle township two years ago.

Besides the son at whose home her death occurred, Mrs. Blanchard is survived 
by another son, David, of Antigo, Wisc., and one daughter Mrs. Cora Whitney of 
Adrian.  Funeral services will be held from the Methodist church Saturday 
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, in charge of Rev. W. E. Doty.  Burial will be made 
in Portland Cemetery.




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