Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Holmberg, Nellie (Wallace) 1943
************************************************
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 December 5, 2010, 1:13 pm

Lake Odessa Wave, 12 Aug 1943

Nellie Wallace, daughter of Nathan and Sarah Wallace was born in Sebewa, Feb. 
3, 1881, and died in Hot Springs, Ark., July 16, 1943.

Her childhood was spent on a farm and she attended the West Sebewa school, then 
Lake Odessa high school, then a business course at Ferris institute.

She took a position in Kalamazoo where she met and married Dr. Holmberg 
February 28, 1908.  He entered the army and they were sent to Washington, D.C., 
then to San Francisco, then to New Mexico, from there to Parang on Mindanao 
Island in the Philippines.

In 1917 they were returned to Arizona, the United States, where the Dr. 
contracted pneumonia and died in 1919.  After his death she worked in the 
office of Henry Ford for 15 years then for Ambassador Bridge Co. until her 
health failed.

She is survived by two brothers, John and Luke in Detroit, two sisters, Mrs. 
Pearl Wilcox in Kalamazoo, and Flossie Wallace at Lansing, also nieces and 
nephews.  The funeral was held in Saginaw and burial was in that city beside 
her husband.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/h/holmberg10222nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 1.6 Kb