Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brooks, Mina (Gerkey) 1970 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net April 26, 2016, 1:38 pm Lakewood News, 16 Jul 1970 Last Rites Held for Mina Brooks Mrs. Nina Brooks, 91, passed away Wednesday afternoon at the Ionia Manor, where she had been a patient for about six years. She was born in Barry County June 19, 1879, daughter of John and Minerva (Barlinger ) Gerkey, and had been a resident of the Lake Odessa and Clarksville areas most of her life. Her husband, Fred, passed away in 1950. Surviving are two granddaughters, Mrs. Larry Stafford of Palo Alto, Calif., and Mrs. Jerome Thelen of Fowler; three grandsons, Frederick and Robert Hendee of Portland and Raymond Hendee of Park Ridge, Ill.; 13 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Funeral services were held at 2:30 Saturday afternoon at Pickens Funeral Chapel. Rev. Richard Cromwell officiated, with burial in Portland Cemetery. [Transcriber's Note: Her given name is typed as it was printed in the obituary.] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/brooks32656nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb