Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Griswold, Mollie G. 1952
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The Portland Observer, May, 1952


Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2:00 from the Neller Funeral Home in 
Portland for Mrs. R. I. Griswold, wife of the late Ray I. Griswold, editor and 
publisher of the former Portland Observer.  Interment will be at the family lot 
in Portland cemetery.

Death came Tuesday to Mrs. Griswold at the age of 72, following a stroke 
suffered in March of 1952, since which time she had been a patient at the Ionia 
Convalescent Home.

Born Molly Gertrude Baker, Aug. 4, 1879 at Saginaw, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. S. 
Eugene Baker, she was a life time resident of Michigan.  On October 6, 1905 she 
was united in marriage to Ray I. Griswold, to which union were born three 
children, Eleanor (Mrs. G. P. Titcomb) Churchville, Maryland, Barbara (Mrs. R. 
Gordon Ransom) and Eugene F. Griswold, of Ionia.

In 1921 she settled with her husband and family in Portland, and during the 
ensuing 20 years participated in the editing and publishing of the Portland 
Observer, a weekly newspaper formerly published in the village.  A column which 
she originated and published weekly as “Mollie’s Monologue” gained wide 
recognition and was the fulfillment of an ambition gleaned from a near-lifetime 
in the newspaper business.

Following the death of her husband in 1938, and the subsequent sale of the 
family business, Mrs. Griswold engaged as personal companion, and during the 
following years widely traveled the United States.

She was a member of the Portland Methodist church and Ladies’ Literary club of 
Portland.

Surviving, besides the son and daughters, are four grandchildren, and a 
brother, Merritt B. Wilson, of Marquette, Mich.

Rev. Keith Avery of Portland Methodist church will officiate at services.  The 
family will be at the funeral home Thursday evening between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. 
to receive callers.  Casket bearers will be Jay Clark, Floyd C. Rice, Walter F. 
Ingraham, Oliver Tschopp, Dan Watson and Ray Barnard.



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