Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Neustifter, Gertrude 1980 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net July 25, 2013, 2:41 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, May 14, 1980 Gertrude Neustifter, 65, of W. Main St., died late Monday evening at the Ionia County Memorial Hospital. She was born in Grand Rapids Nov. 11, 1914, the daughter of Cornelius and Laura Hart Spruit. She graduated from Creston High School in Grand Rapids. She was married to John Neustifter on Sept. 9, 1935. They moved to Ionia to make their home in the late 1940s. She had worked as a bookkeeper for J.C. Penny Co. in Ionia for over 20 years. Her husband preceded her in death March 15, 1975. She was a member of the First Christian Church. She was survived by two sons, Jan of Indiana and James of Woodland, Mich; four grandchildren; one brother, Gerrit Spruit of Garland, Tex.; two sisters, Mrs. Robert (Marie) Reed of Grand Rapids. Mrs. John (Martha) Steghuis also of Grand Rapids. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 10 a.m. from the Leddick Funeral Home with the Rev. Ron Dow of the First Christian Church officiating. Burial will be in Easton cemetery. Visitation at the funeral home will be Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The family will be at the funeral home from 7- 9 p.m. A memorial fund has been established for the Ionia County Cancer Society. Contributions may be left at the funeral home. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/n/neustift21901nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb