Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Miller, Brenda Jean 1953
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, February 2, 1953


Eight-year-old Brenda Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Onie Miller of Portland, 
died at St. Mary’s hospital in Grand Rapids Saturday of complications resulting 
from polio. 

If Brenda had lived until Sunday she would have been nine years old.  Many 
Ionia families had sent her cards and gifts which were given to her and opened 
upon arrival due to her serious condition.  Her delight in them was evident in 
spites of her illness.

Stricken in 1949 with polio the youngster had been adopted by the Ionia Chapter 
of Infantile Paralysis as their poster girl.  She had spent most of the time in 
1949 in Grand Rapids hospitals.

Her condition became weakened recently when she suffered from pneumonia and 
because of her prolonged illness she had been unable to combat it.  When she 
became critically ill she was removed to St. Mary’s hospital from Mary Free Bed 
Guild Convalescent home on January 19. 

Besides her parents she is survived by four brothers and sisters and 
grandfather, all of Portland.  Funeral services are to be conducted Tuesday at 
1:30 p.m. from the Neller Funeral home.  Burial will be at Portland cemetery.



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