Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Mellstead, Helen M. (Wilcox) 1986 ************************************************ 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 23, 2011, 11:13 am Ionia Sentinel Standard, 7 Nov 1986 Helen M. Mellstead, 82, 2700 Burcham Drive, East Lansing, formerly of Portland, died Thursday in a Lansing hospital. She was born Feb. 4, 1904, in Danby Township, the daughter of Harry and Myrtle Martin Wilcox. She was a member of the Portland United Methodist Church and the W.S.C.S. Survivors include three daughters, Lorna Ainslie of Haslett, Marilyn Buttons of Upland, Ind. and Janice Patrick of Eagle. Also surviving are three brothers, Ernest Wilcox of Florida and Howard and Ivan Wilcox of Portland; and four sisters, Ethel Feehand and Lela Wickerink of Ionia and Dorothy Kissane and Francis Adams of Portland. Funeral services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. from the Portland United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Harold Holmes and the Rev. Robert Hinklin officiating. Pallbearers will be grandchildren and burial will be in the Portland Cemetery. A memorial for the Portland United Methodist Church has been established in care of the Neller Funeral home in Portland. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/m/mellstea15103nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb