Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McPherson, Mary J. July 31, 1949 ************************************************ 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 July 13, 2010, 6:00 pm The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, August 1, 1949 Miss Mary J. McPherson, 88, died at the Ionia Convalescent Home Sunday, July 31, at 10:30 a.m. after being a patient there for the past year. She was born July 30, 1861 on her father’s farm on Staley Road, the daughter of William and Pauline McPherson. She lived her entire life in her present home which her parents took up from the government. She was the youngest of eight children and the last surviving member. She was a life-long member of the Ionia Methodist church and a charter member of the State Road club. Surviving are four nephews, John and William McPherson and Richard Clute of Ionia and Monroe Clute of Miami, Fla. Services will be conducted Tuesday, August 2, at 2 p.m. from Boynton funeral home The Rev. F. G. Dunbar of Grand Rapids, former pastor of the Ionia First Methodist church, will officiate. Interment will be in Highland Park cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/m/mcpherso6857nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb