Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brooks, Esther L. (Moore) October 18, 1955 ************************************************ 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: Nan . wheaton1624@yahoo.com January 25, 2017, 8:37 pm County News - Thursday, Oct. 20, 1955 Mrs. Esther L. Brooks, 113 Cleveland Street, died suddenly Tuesday morning, October 18, in the Ionia County Memorial Hospital, after being ill only eight hours. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merrit Moore, of Nashville, she was born April 18, 1898, and married to Howard Brooks, of Nashville, July 8, 1919. The family came to Ionia from Belding in 1933. Surviving are her husband, Howard; eight children, George, Howard Jr., Melvin, Floyd, Robert Morey, Kenneth and Mrs. Edna Hull, all of Ionia; three sisters and one brother, Mrs. Sue Pinfold of East Jordan, Mrs. Blanch Golden and Mrs. Alice Joliff, East Lansing, and Albert of Canada. She also leaves fourteen grandchildren. A son, Raymond, was killed in the U. S. Navy in 1941. Mrs. Brooks was a member of the Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church. Funeral service will be at two o'clock Friday afternoon from Myers Funeral Home. Burial in Tuttle cemetery. Additional Comments: Funeral: Friday, 21 October, 1955 Tuttle Cemetery File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/brooks5625gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb