Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Conkey, Myrtle Smith 1952
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Ionia Sentinel Standard
CONKEY, MYRTLE (SMITH)(MRS. GEORGE):
   IONIA SENTINEL STANDARD, MI, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 1952:  "Deaths - Mrs Myrtle
Conkey, 79, died Monday, December 29, at her home at Woodard Lake.
   She was born May 20, 1873, in Orleans township, the daughter of William
DeForrest Smith and Sarah Maria Wheeler Smith.
   Part of her early life was spent in Sheridan where her father operated a
general store.  Later she moved to Ronald township where she resided until 1911.
 In 1911 she and her mother moved to the Ira Wheeler farm at Orleans Center.
   She was married to George Conkey in 1924.  He died in 1948.
   During her life she had traveled extensively to the West Coast, Florida and
the New England states.
   Mrs Conkey was a member of the Orleans Center Methodist church and the W. S.
C. S.
   She is survived by one sister, Mrs Clark Palmer of Orleans; two foster
daughters, Mrs Gerald Smith of Woodard Lake and Mrs Ambrose Stoddard of Orleans
and four foster grandchildren.
   Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at the Fales-Hoffman
funeral home in Belding with the Rev. Lester Clough officiating.
   Interment will be in the ____ lot at Woodard Lake cemetery."



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