Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brooks, Bertha R. (Bippley) 1963 ************************************************ 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 February 11, 2013, 6:25 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel – 28 January 1963 Mrs. Bertha R. Brooks, 64, of route two, Lake Odessa, died unexpectedly at 2:30 Friday morning at Bradenton, Fla., where she went several weeks ago with her husband, Dewey to spend the winter. Mrs. Brooks was born March 27, 1898 in Odessa Township, the daughter of Frank and Edna Arnold Bippley, and graduated from Lake Odessa high school in 1916. February 9, 1918 she was married to Dewey Brooks and at the time of her death, lived one-half mile from her birthplace. She had spent all her life in Odessa Township. She was a member of Sebewa Baptist church. Surviving besides her husband are a daughter, Mrs. Clarence Guilford of Lansing; a son, Robert Brooks, a sister, Mrs. Walter Warner and a brother, Donald Bippley, all of Lake Odessa; and six grandchildren. Funeral service will be held at Pickens funeral chapel at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon with the Rev. Robert Wessel officiating. Burial will be at Lakeside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/brooks19685nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb