Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Piper, Estella R. 1949 ************************************************ 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 June 30, 2012, 7:46 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, December 21, 1949 Mrs. Stella Smith Piper, 82, died early Wednesday morning at her home at 617 Bayard street. She was born Sept. 11, 1867, at Pleasant Lake, Ind., the daughter of Edward and Eliza Thompson Smith. April 21, 1885, she married Frederick Piper who died in December, 1939. She has spent most of her life in Ionia. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Emma Bensinger and Mrs. Ulmont Sage of Ionia and Mrs. Anthony Burke of Detroit; four sons, Frederick, Vern, and Asa of Ionia and Roy of Lansing; nine grandchildren; and twelve great- grandchildren. Services will be held Friday at 2:30 p.m. from Myers funeral home. The Rev. Wayne Davis will officiate. Interment will be in Highland Park cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/p/piper18471nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb