Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Durkee, Blanche A. December 15, 1966 ************************************************ 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 mlnransom@chartermi.net July 7, 2010, 8:32 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, December 16, 1966 Funeral and committal services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Pickens funeral chapel in Lake Odessa for Mrs. Blanche A. Durkee. Mrs. Durkee, 73, route one, Lake Odessa, died Thursday at St. Mary’s hospital in Grand Rapids where she was admitted November 29 for a broken leg after she fell. She was born November 6, 1893 in Odessa township the daughter of John and Harriett Walters Tasker. A lifelong resident of Odessa township she married Laurence Durkee August 15, 1915 and he died in August of 1943. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Albert Roose of Lake Odessa and one granddaughter; two brothers, Alva Tasker and Clarence Tasker of Lake Odessa. Rev. Elnar Unseth will officiate with burial in Lakeside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/d/durkee6486nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb