Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Fantow, Sophia 1937
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, November 4, 1937

Mrs. Sophia Fantow died at her home in South Ionia Tuesday afternoon, November 
2 at 4:45 after an illness of 10 months.  She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Michael Behrendt and was born in Germany, October 26, 1851.  Mrs. Fantow 
celebrated her 86th birthday last week.  With her husband, Charles Fantow, she 
came to Detroit 54 years ago and after residing there for 14 years, they made 
their home in Ionia county for 40 years, the last 16 of which Mrs. Fantow 
spent at her home in South Ionia.  She was baptized and married in the German 
Lutheran church in Germany and she was a member of the Rebekah lodge.  At the 
time of his death in 1930, her husband was the oldest guard at the Michigan 
reformatory.  For a number of years he had a blacksmith shop in Ionia.

She is survived by five children, Robert Fantow and Otto Fantow of Detroit, 
Mrs. Frieda Sterns of Ionia, and Mrs. Martha Quigley and Mrs. Minnie Alexander 
of South Ionia.  She also had another daughter, Mrs. Marie Dake who died in 
1931.  Two brothers, William Behrendt and Paul Behrendt and a sister, Mrs. 
Marie Meyers of Detroit, also survive her. 

Funeral services will be held from her home in South Ionia Friday afternoon at 
2 o’clock with the Rev. R. A. Rook officiating.  Burial will be at the family 
lot at Easton cemetery.


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