Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Blow, Flora Lenore (May) 1972
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 26 Apr & 1 May 1972

A former Ionia resident and long time Detroit resident, Mrs. Flora Lenore Blow, 
84, died at Blodgett Memorial hospital in Grand Rapids Tuesday afternoon 
shortly after admittance.  She had been a patient at Ionia County memorial 
hospital since Sunday and was transferred to Grand Rapids Tuesday.  

Born in Lyons, April 13, 1888, she was the daughter of Julius and Mary Pfiffer 
May.  She lived and attended school in Lyons area until married to Warren Blow 
at Church of Christ in Ionia in 1906.  They made their home in Ionia until his 
death in June of 1930.  She left Ionia in 1935 to make her home with a son, 
Warren Blow, in Detroit.

She was a member of Ionia chapter of Macabees and former member of Church of 
Christ of Ionia, now First Christian church.

Surviving are three sons, Leo Blow of Dearborn Heights, Warren Keith Blow of 
Detroit and Eugene of Union Lake; daughter, Mrs. Eileen Loca of Dearborn 
Heights; 10 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at First Christian church.  Rev. 
Theodore Forbes will officiate and interment will be at Lyons cemetery.  Family 
will be at Leddick funeral home Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. 
and 7 to 9 p.m.

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Funeral services for Mrs. Flora L. Blow were held at 1 p.m. Saturday from First 
Christian church, under auspices of Leddick funeral home with Rev. Theodore 
Forbes officiating.  Organist for the service was Sara Jane Carpenter.  Bearers 
were Mrs. Blow’s grandsons: James, Richard and Warren Blow, and Charles, 
Lawrence and John Loca.

Following graveside services in Lyons cemetery, a lunch was prepared and served 
at the home of a family friend Norbert VerPorter at 422 State street, Ionia.


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