Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Parker, Myrtie L. 1960 ************************************************ 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 August 26, 2010, 8:04 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, February 19, 1960 Mrs. Myrtie L. Parker, 82, 611 ½ West Washington street, died Friday morning at the Ionia County Memorial hospital. She was born August 19, 1877 in Ionia county and was married to William McCoy November 22, 1893 who died August 24, 1904. In 1908 she was married to Carl Green and later was married to Claude Parker who survives. Besides her husband she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Elsie Mae Monks, Mrs. Wilma P. Randall and Mrs. Shirley Louise Shipper; three sons, Guy McCoy, Cecil McCoy and John I. Green Parker; 21 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren and three great great-grandchildren. One son, William Dea Green died in infancy. Funeral service will be held at the Myers funeral home Monday at 2 p.m. The Rev. Howard Johnson of Okemos will officiate and will be assisted by the Rev. Paul Knaak. Interment will be at Balcom cemetery. Subsequent Publication: Wednesday, February 24, 1960 Funeral service for Mrs. Myrtie L. Parker, 82, 611 ½ West Washington street, who died February 19 at the Ionia County Memorial hospital, was held Monday afternoon at Myers funeral home. The Rev. Howard Johnson of Okemos officiated and the Rev. and Mrs. Paul Knaak sang. Bearers, grandsons of Mrs. Parker, were William Monks, Marion Randall, William McCoy, Stanley McCoy, Eugene Parker, and Ronald Hornburg. Out of town persons attending were Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Skipper, Mrs. James Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. John Parker and family, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Parker and family, Mrs. Elsie Monks, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Collins and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hornburg of Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Vern Frede and son of Traverse City, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil McCoy, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley McCoy and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Don Lohre and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Parke r of Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Guy McCoy of Orleans, William McCoy of Fowlerville, Mrs. Claude Otto and Mrs. Delores Dyer of Vestaburg, Mrs. Zelphia Hewitt, Missionary from Africa; Ruth Denslow and Shaffee Johnson of Ovid; Kurt Parker of Blanchard, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nelson of Saranac, Rev. and Mrs. Harvey Ott of Detroit, Mrs. Donald Sandack of Warren, Rev. and Mrs. Howard Johnson of Okemos, Rev. and Mrs. Merritt Johnson of Charlotte, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Randall and family of Belding, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Townsend and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Forest Gillett of Muir; Mary Parker of Durand and Blanche Parker of Mt. Pleasant. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/p/parker8839nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb