Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cull, Lucy A. 1948 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net October 7, 2018, 6:34 am Ionia Sentinel Standard, 22 Apr 1948 Lucy Cull Dies; Was Teacher Miss Lucy Cull, 69, for 22 years principal and kindergarten teacher of the Jefferson grade school, and a teacher in the Ionia city public schools for 36 years, died at 8:00 a.m. Thursday after months of illness. Miss Cull died at Leila Post hospital in Battle Creek, where she had been transferred a few hours before from a Battle Creek nursing home. She had been confined to the St. Joseph hospital at Mt. Clemens since late in December after being seriously ill, and a few weeks ago was taken to Battle Creek to be near a brother. Miss Cull came to Ionia in 1910 after teaching a short time in Palo and Saranac. In 1922, with the opening of the then new Jefferson grade building she was named principal, a position she held until about 1944. Although she was to have been retired at about that time, she continued her kindergarten teaching at the Jefferson because of the lack of teachers during the war period. She was retired in September, 1946, and moved to St. Clair Shores to live with a brother. Miss Cull was born in Ireland January 12, 1879, and came to this country as a small child. She is survived by two brothers, John Fistler of St. Clair Shores and Dwight Fistler of Battle Creek. Miss Cull was an active member of the Ionia Baptist church, having been a Sunday school teacher for more than 32 years as well as a member of the choir. Funeral services have not yet been arranged, but burial will be at the Ionia Highland Park cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/cull8379gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb