Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....BROWN, Marian F. (Barton) 2007
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR; Newsletter from Sebewa - Volume 42, February 2007, Number 4: submitted with permission of Editor Grayden D. Slowins
RECENT DEATH:  Marian F. Brown, 88, widow of Burton Brown, mother of Jan 
Livingston, James Brown, Joan Guy, Joel Brown, Jerold Brown and his twin 
Jeffery who is deceased, Bill Brown, Anne Russman, Tom, Chris, Jon, Brian and 
Mike Brown in order of birth, stepsister to Linus Pohl, Anna Thelen, Florence 
Thelen, Agnes Schneider, Janet Fedewa and Mary Simon, daughter of Rose 
(Nahrgang) & William O. Barton.  Bill Barton and his brother Jay had Barton 
Brothers International Harvester dealership in the cement block building which 
they built of blocks made on the job.  They sold to Sandborns.  The Barton 
Brothers Building was torn down to make parking for the new city hall.  William 
Barton was elected Treasurer of Portland Village in 1916.  Bill & Rose lived on 
Smith St. between Brush & Academy, next north of Dan Watson's cement block 
house.  Besides raising this large family, Marian was a farmer all her life in 
Orange, Danby, and Portland Townships, coming to Knox's Portland Elevator with 
bags of grain for cow feed on a small trailer, in the trunk, and on the front 
fenders of her car every week, even a week before her twins were born.  She 
camped at Ionia Free Fair for over 50 years, with her kids and grandkids in 4-H 
and music groups.  Marian Barton Brown was Portland Homecoming Queen in 1936, 
when the new Grand River Bridge on US-16 was dedicated in a two-day 
celebration.  She is buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Ionia.

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