Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Booth, Florence Annabell (Brimmer) July 10, 1950
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Sentinel-Standard - Thursday, July 13, 1950

                      Funeral Of Victims Of Ionia Fire
Funeral services for an Ionia mother and her three small children burned to 
death in the flames of their Ionia township home Monday, will be held here 
Wednesday afternoon.

The funeral will be at the Myers funeral home at 2 p.m. Wednesday and the 
Rev. Howard Johnson, pastor of the Lincoln Avenue Baptist church, will 
conduct the funeral. 

Mrs. Wayne Booth, 30, the mother and her 18 month old son, Carl, will be 
buried together in one casket. Two other children, Linda, 4, and Ted Booth, 
6, will be buried in another. The caskets will not be opened. 

Interment will be at the family lot in the Highland Park cemetery, only a 
stone's throw from the ruins of the Booth home near Prairie Creek.

                            Trapped in Home
The mother and her three children were trapped and burned to death as their 
Ionia township home caught fire and was destroyed early Monday morning.

Only two members of the family escaped, they were Wayne Booth, 31, the 
father who left for his work as a sewing machine mechanic at Fisher Body 
Company in Lansing, and Joan, 7, who was vacationing with her grandparents, 
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Booth at Orleans. She at first was believed burned with 
the others.

Late Monday afternoon and Monday evening long lines of automobiles slowly 
passed the still smoldering ruins of the home on Hillcrest Drive, two miles 
east of Ionia city, just off M-21. A heavy cloud of dust hung over the 
Prairie Creek valley from the traffic along the dusty roadway. 

Additional Comments:
Age: 30
Funeral: Wednesday 12 July, 1950
Highland Park cemetery #C-105


Dau: Linda Lee - age 4Y
son: Ted Keith - age 5Y
Son: Carl Wayne - age 1Y

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