Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McAlary, Bertha 1942 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net May 15, 2013, 3:35 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, August 6, 1942 Mrs. Bertha McAlary, 82, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Gierman, 406 Harter street, Wednesday afternoon, August 5, at 3:40 o’clock, following an illness of more than three years. Born in Ireland, May 10, 1850, she came to the United States at the age of one year with her parents, James and Ann Cross, who settled in Lyons and later moved to Ionia. She attended school in Lyons. Surviving are four children, William McAlary, of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Frank Gierman and Mrs. Lee Panney of Ionia, and Mrs. Ed. Shorkey of Detroit, 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Her husband, William J. McAlary, died in 1938. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. at the SS. Peter and Paul church of which Mrs. McAlary was a charter member o f the Rosary society. Interment will be in Mt. Olivet cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/m/mcalary20175nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb