Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kenyon, Crystal (Willard) 1973 ************************************************ 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 July 15, 2011, 1:41 pm Lake Odessa Wave, 1 Feb 1973 Mrs. Crystal Kenyon, 79, former Lake Odessa resident, passed away Friday morning at the Osteopathic hospital, Grand Rapids, where she was hospitalized two weeks. She was born January 19, 1894 at Luther, the daughter of Eugene and Florence (Shapland) Willard. January 1, 1916, she married Marvin E. Kenyon of Portland and they moved to the Lake Odessa area about 40 years ago from Portland. The past nine years she had resided with her daughter Loraine Kenyon in Grand Rapids. Mrs. Kenyon was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church at Ionia but for the last several years had attended the Sparta church. She was a member of the Dorcas Society of the church and former member of the local chapter of the Blue Star Mothers of America. Surviving are a son Willard of lake Odessa; two daughters Lorraine of Grand Rapids and Mrs. Herbert (Madonna) Blakely of Lansing; 10 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Mr. Kenyon passed away March 17, 1964. Funeral services were held at the Pickens Funeral Chapel, Lake Odessa, Sunday afternoon at 4:30 with burial in Lakeside cemetery. Pastor Paul E. Penno of Sparta and pastor Gordon E. Stecker of Ionia officiated. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/k/kenyon14822nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb