Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Holmes, Ella 1946
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, November 7, 1946

Mrs. Ella Holmes died at her home, 202 E. Main Street about midnight Thursday, 
October 31, after several months illness.  She would have been 79 years old, 
November 17.

Ella Townsend, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Townsend, was born in Orange 
township, November 17, 1867.  She attended the LeValley district school and 
later Ionia high school.  In June 1892 she was married to Louis L. Holmes of 
Belding, and lived in Belding until after Mr. Homes death in 1907.  She had 
lived in Ionia about 36 years.

Surviving Mrs. Holmes is a son Fred, Ionia, and a brother Ed S. Townsend, 
Orange township and a sister-in-law Mrs. Carrie Holmes of Belding.  Rev. 
Dwight M. Kitch of the Methodist church conducted the funeral service, held 
from Boynton’s Sunday afternoon.  Burial was in the family lot in Tuttle 
cemetery.  Pall bearers were Ray Townsend, Lynn Townsend, Elvert, Russell and 
Ross Townsend.

Mrs. Holmes was a member of the Methodist church and a life member of the OE.S.



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