Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Murty, Arvilla A. (Bower) November 22, 1969 ************************************************ 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: Patricia Currigan currigan1932@comcast.net January 8, 2022, 8:40 am Lake Odessa Wave-Thurs. November 27, 1969 Arvilla Murty Passed Away Mrs. Arvilla Murty 80, a retired registered nurse, passed away at the osteopathic Hospital in Grand Rapids Saturday morning. She had been hospitalized there five days and prior to that for four days at the Belding Community Hospital. Mrs Murty had been a patient at the Christian Rest Home about five months. She was born in Odessa township Dec. 25, 1888, the daughter of John and Rachel (Lepard) Bower, and was a graduated of Lake Odessa High School and Nurses Training in Kalamazoo. She married Ernest Murty in 1914 and they resided at Ypsilanti at the time of his death in 1942. Following her husband's deaths she made her home in Lake Odessa and was employed at the Michigan Veteran's facility in Grand Rapids until retiring in 1954. Mrs Murty was a member of the Lake Odessa Christian Reformed Church. Surviving are son, John of Kalamazoo; one grandchild and one great-grandchild; a sister, Mrs.Emma Griebel of Lake Odessa and now a resident at the Christian Rest Home at Belding, and a brother, Tello Bower of Big Rapids. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1:30 at Pickens Funeral Chapel. Rev. William D. Ribbens will officiate, with burial in Lakeside Cemetery. Additional Comments: Lakeside Cem#3-328-3 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/m/murty41923nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb