Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Merriam, Carrie (Drake) 1944
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Ionia Sentinel - 29 April 1944
Mrs. Carrie L. Merriam, a resident of Ionia for 29 years, died at 1:30 Saturday 
morning in St. Mary's hospital, Grand Rapids where she had undergone an 
operation April 8.  She was the widow of the late A. W. (Don) Merriam, who died 
May 18, 1943.  Christian Science services will be conducted at the Boynton 
funeral home Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock with burial in Easton cemetery 
beside her husband.

Mrs. Merriam was born in New York state, April 6, 1872 a daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. James B. Drake who moved to Ionia county when she was two years of age and 
settled on a farm in Otisco township  Upon reaching maturity she taught school 
for several years in various parts of the state as well as being employed by 
the J. L. Hudson Co. at Detroit for some time prior to her marriage in 1908 to 
Mr. Merriam, a railway conductor.  Except for seven years spent in Detroit they 
spent the intervening years in Ionia.

Surviving are a foster son, Don Merriam, Jr. attached to U. S. armed forces at 
Daniel Field, August, Ga., a granddaughter Nancy and a sister Mrs.. Gertrude 
Morrison, Grand Rapids.

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