Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Burns, Frances (Sanford) 1937
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 22 Nov 1937

Mrs. Frances E. Burns, for many years prominent in Michigan Maccabee circles,
and a great commander of the Lady Maccabees, and later honorary supreme
commander and assistant supreme commander of the order after its merger with the
Maccabees, will be buried Tuesday afternoon, following services at 2 p.m. in
Emmanuel Episcopal church, St. Louis.

Mrs. Burns died Friday at her home in the Palmetto hotel, in Detroit, and her
body will lie in state in St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, Woodward and Hancock
avenues, Detroit, until 2 p.m.  Monday when services were to be held there,
followed by the Tuesday service in her home city, St. Louis.

Mrs. Burns was born Frances Sanford, in Ionia, May 2, 1866, the daughter of
Ionia pioneers.  She taught school in St. Louis, and married the late John Burns
in 1887.  In 1928 she went to Detroit to live.

Mrs. Burns had charge of the Frances E. Burns old age home for ladies at Alma
and the hospitalization work of the Maccabees until her death.

She was a member of the Women’s Press association of Michigan and past president
of the Michigan federation of women’s clubs.  She had been president of the
Michigan Fraternal congress, the first woman to be elected president of any
fraternal congress.  She had been recording secretary of the National Fraternal
congress and president of the president’s section of the national congress.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Peter Russ, a son, Robert S. Burns; a sister,
Mrs. Adelaide Hughes of Flint; a brother, William Sanford of Gillespie, Ill.;
seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.


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