Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....HOWELL, Mrs. Ida (Oatley) November 1968 ************************************************ 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: LaVonne Bennett lib@dogsbark.comMarch 20, 2006, 4:53 pm THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin of The Sebewa Center Association Volume 4 December 1968 Number 3; submitted with permission of Editor Grayden D. Slowins SEBEWA CENTER ASSOCIATION MEMBER IDA OATLEY HOWELL DIES AT TRAVERSE CITY - Mrs. Ida Oatley Howell, 87, died at Munson Hospital November 6, 1968. She was the eldest granddaughter of Theodore Gunn. Her parents, Gravener and Sarah (Gunn) Oatley were early residents of Sebewa. The timbered areas of Wexford county attracted them and without benefit of railroad they moved, soon after Ida was born, to a farm uncleared of trees near Mesick. Mrs. Howell attended the State Normal School at Mt. Pleasant and a Deaconess schools in Grand Rapids and Herkimer, N. Y. She once taught school at the Indian Reservation at Mt. Pleasant. She acted as substitute teacher at the Sebewa Center school about 1910. She was married to Rev. Clarence Howell, who spent most of his ministry in New York. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/h/howell915gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb