Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Mills, Fern (Rasey) 1959 ************************************************ 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 October 22, 2010, 11:17 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 16 Nov 1959 Mrs. Fern Mills, 74, a long time resident of Lyons died Saturday morning at the Meitler convalescent home in Portland where she had been since August following a long illness. Mrs. Mills was born August 7, 1885, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Rasey of Greenville. She attended Greenville high school and then took a business course. She came to Lyons about 1907 as bookkeeper at the Herrick Casket Co. She was married October 13, 1909, to Harry C. Mills of Lyons, who passed away November 7, 1958. They had lived just east of Lyons since their marriage. Upon Mr. Mills death Mrs. Mills went to Portland to live with her daughter, Mrs. Leon Fenner. Survivors are one son, Stanley Mills of Muir, one daughter, Mrs. Fenner; 11 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Margaret Vandercook of Dundee. One son Delos died in 1954. Funeral services will be Tuesday, at 2 p.m. from the Shaw-Rivett funeral home in Muir. The Rev. Robert Treat of Portland will officiate. Burial will be in the Lyons cemetery. Bearers will be George Couling, Lewis Means, Lansing; Wayne Fenner, Portland; Roger Warren, John Davis and Elmer Ferris, Lyons. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/m/mills9627nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb