Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Bertha E. February 21, 1997 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net July 1, 2010, 7:12 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, February 22, 1997 Bertha E. Brown, 78, of Orleans died February 21, 1997 at the Greenville Care Center. She was born January 25, 1919 in Jerome, Florida, the daughter of Harry “Homer” and Clara Lynn Blough. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Greenville. On November 23, 1935 in Highland Park, she married Ralph W. Brown Sr. She is survived by her husband, Ralph; four children, Ellen Mae Snider of Orleans, Ralph W. II and Kay Brown of Orleans, David J. and Irene Brown of Salt Lake City, Utah and Terry Lee Brown of South Bend, Ind.; 15 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one son, Robert Lloyd in 1995; one grandson, Matthew Brown; two brothers, NorMAN and Earl Blough. Funeral services will be Monday at 11 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Greenville, with Bishop Rowell and Bruce Nelson officiating. Interment will be in Orleans Cemetery. Visitation will be Saturday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Johnson Funeral Home in Belding. Memorial contributions may be made to the church missionary fund. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/brown6338nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb