Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Filkins, Clara 1901 ************************************************ 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 November 8, 2017, 6:17 pm Belding Banner, 30 May 1901, page 5 The remains of Mrs. Clara Filkins of Grand Rapids were brought to Belding Monday for interment in the Otisco cemetery. The husband, Henry Filkins was born a short distance south of Cook’s Corners and all his earlier years were spent in that vicinity. He is a nephew of Marvin Filkins and lost both his parents when he was young. He married his wife in the vicinity of Palo, and three children are left besides the husband to mourn her loss, the oldest about 14 years old. They have resided in Grand Rapids for a number of years, he being a passenger engineer upon the Pere Marquette, running to New Buffalo. Six of his fellow engineers came from Grand Rapids and acted as pall bearers. Services were held at the Congregational church. She was in her thirty-eighth year. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/f/filkins6836gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb