Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Coe, Maria Caroline 1954 ************************************************ 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 mransom311@gmail.com June 1, 2014, 3:29 pm The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Tuesday, November 2, 1954 Mrs. Maria Caroline Coe, 96, Portland’s oldest resident, died Monday evening at her home at 123 Albro street, Portland. She came to Michigan from Indiana when she was eight years of age, in a covered wagon, and settled in West Sebewa and lived on a farm near Sunfield until the death of her husband, Alfred, in 1923. In 1924 she moved to Portland where she has since resided. She was a member of the Dow Methodist church at Sebewa. Surviving are two daughters, Miss Gladys Coe and Miss Clarys Coe both of Portland; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Parkinson of Battle Creek, Mrs. Hattie Graft of Portland and Mrs. Eva Babbitt of Eagle. Funeral service will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Neller funeral home in Portland and interment will be at Sebewa cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/coe25221nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb