Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dodds, Lydia (Dickens) 1927
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Belding Banner News, 4 Aug 1927
Mrs. Lydia Dodds, formerly Lydia Dickens, of Smyrna, passed away at Tucson, 
Arizona, where she has been confined in a sanitarium seeking to ward off 
tubercular trouble with which she has been afflicted for the past few years.  
Mrs. Dodds was 36 years of age and was married to Alva J. Dodds 14 years ago.  
To this union was born two children, Gerald 11 and Vernon 4, who now survive.  
Several years ago Mrs. Dodds was telephone operator at Smyrna for a number of 
years and well known in this community.  The family moved from there to 
Farmington where they made their home until two years ago when they moved to 
Arizona hoping to find improvement for Mrs. Dodds’ health.

She came to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. G.O. Bignell of this city when she 
was four years old and remained with them until her marriage.  The body was 
shipped to this home and arrived Sunday.  She leaves to mourn their loss 
besides a bereaved husband and children, her father, of Fremand, one sister, 
Mrs. J. Mooney and one brother, William Dickens of Smyrna.  Funeral was held at 
the home of Mr. and Mrs. G.O. Bignell 406 E. Washington street at 2:30 o’clock 
Tuesday afternoon.  Rev. H.S. Ellis officiating with interment at the Smyrna 
cemetery.

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Smyrna – The friends of Mrs. Alva Dodds, nee Lydia Dicken, who passed away last 
Thursday, extend their sympathy to the bereaved husband and other relatives.  
Mrs. Dodds was the operator for the Smyrna Telephone Co. for a good many years 
when Chas. Mead, Carl Hoppough and George Frost owned it.  The funeral was held 
Tuesday afternoon in Belding at the home of her aunt, Mrs. G.O. Bignell on E. 
Washington street.  She leaves to mourn their loss her husband, Alva Dodds, two 
sons, one brother, Will Dicken and one sister, Mrs. Rodie Mooney, besides a 
host of friends.


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