Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Josephine Theresa (Anderson) 1940
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Ionia Sentinel, Tuesday, November 26, 1940

Mr. C. O. Miller, 85, died in Blodgett hospital, Grand Rapids, Tuesday, 
November 26.  She had been in ill health for several months and in October 
submitted to a major operation.

Josephine Theresa Anderson, daughter of Alexander and Marcy Anderson, was born 
in Ionia township, August 3, 1855, on the section of Ionia county land settled 
by her parents in 1832 when they came to Michigan from German Flats, Herkimer 
county, New York.  In 1887 she was united in marriage with Covert O. Miller of 
Ridgeway, Lenawee county, Michigan.  For the first years of their married life 
they lived in Detroit, later returning to Ionia county where they lived in 
Lyons and then moved to Muir, which was Mrs. Miller’s home at the time of her 
death.

She was deeply interested in her church and had been a member of the Church of 
Christ since 1888.  A teacher in the Sunday school., she taught her class in 
Muir the Sunday before she entered the hospital.  She was a member of Evergreen 
chapter, O.E.S., of Lyons.

Surviving are her sister, Mrs. Ione Faulkner, Ionia; an adopted son, William O. 
Miller, of Washington, D.C., who had been at her bedside constantly the past 
week; a niece, Mrs. Beatrice A. Smith of Lyons; a half brother, Edward Nolty of 
Lyons, and other nieces and nephews.  Mr. Miller died about six years ago.  
Mrs. Miller was a sister of the late James D. Anderson of Muir and Archie 
Anderson of Ionia.

Funeral service will be held from the Muir Church of Christ Thursday afternoon 
at 2 o’clock Rev. Kilgour of Grand Rapids will conduct the service, assisted by 
Rev. Paul L. Stewart of Ionia.  Music will be by Mrs. Ray Colwell and Mrs. 
Thane Benedict, Sr.  Pall bearers will be Judson Banning, Coral Estep, L.C. 
Dawes, Frank Burtraw, Otto Ulrich and George McGillivray.


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