Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Davis, Marion M. July 1967
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, July 29, 1967
Word was received in Ionia Saturday from G. Benton Yates, superintendent of 
schools at Livonia and former Ionia resident, of the death of Mrs. Marion M. 
Davis, 90, Thursday at Asheville, N.C.  She had been ill some time and had 
been in Appalachian Hall hospital in Asheville where she had lived since 1951.

Mrs. Davis was the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Alan B. Morse and was born in 
Ionia, February 29, 1876.  She was the widow of Elvert M. Davis who was 
related to Judge F.D.M. Davis.  She attended Ionia public schools.

Mrs. Davis’ husband was general solicitor of the Pennsylvania railroad in 
Philadelphia before his retirement.  She was an author and genealogist.  She 
wrote books among which were Island Stories and Bates Boys on the Western 
Waters.

Survivors include four nephews, Supt. Yates of Livonia, Lee Van Allen Yates of 
Wayne, Pa., Dan J.  Morse and Allen H. Morse of Lewisville, Texas, all former 
Ionians.

Mr. and Mrs. Davis also had lived in Grand Rapids for many years.  She is to 
be buried in Tallahassee, Florida beside her husband.


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