Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bradford, Sarah Elizabeth 1951 ************************************************ 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: Pat Blood pat.blood@gmail.com September 3, 2011, 1:03 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel Aug.9,1951 Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bradford, 78, a resident of Muskegon for the past eight years, died at Muskegon Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 7, after being ill for three months. She had been making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Hazel B. Howard of Muskegon. She was born Oct. 12, 1872, in Ionia and attended Easton Township schools. She married Frank E. Bradford Nov. 12, 1890 and he preceded her in death in the fall of 1932. He had been a grocer in Ionia some years before. At the time of her death she was a member of the Methodist church, the W.S.C.S. Sigma Delta chapter, T. B. Sanatorium auxiliary and the Clara Swain circle of the Central Methodist church of Muskegon. Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. Howard; two grandchildren, Mrs. Robert Sanborn of Ionia and Sally Anne Howard of Muskegon, two great-grandchildren, Frederick and Robert Sanborn, Ionia; and two sisters, Mrs. Myron Kennedy and Mrs. Ben Reeves of Orleans. Following prayer services at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Balbirnie Mortuary in Muskegon the body will be brought to Ionia where it will lie in state from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the First Methodist church, Dr. Howard A. Smith will officiate at memorial services at 2 p.m. Friday. Interment will be in Easton Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bradford16833nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb