Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Pitt, Mildred B. (Beals) 1962 ************************************************ 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 February 15, 2015, 12:44 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 17 Jun 1962 Mrs. Mildred B. Pitt, 84, died at to 9 o’clock Tuesday morning at Ionia Rest home where she had been confined since September 1951. She was born in Toledo, Ohio, December 12, 1877, the daughter of William L. and Francis F. Beals, and moved to Ionia as an infant. She was graduated from Ionia high school in 1896, attended business school in Chicago and was a piano teacher. She worked for various state agencies including the health department and administrative boards. November 5, 1914 she was married to Earle R. Pitt of Lansing and following his retirement they divided their time between Florida in the winters and Ionia in the summer. Mr. Pitt died in 1956. Mrs. Pitt is survived by a niece, Mrs. Jane Kellner of East Lansing, and a nephew, Thane Benedict of Cincinnati Ohio. Funeral service will be conducted at Boynton funeral home Thursday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Wilfrid G Sawyier of First Presbyterian church officiating. Interment will be at Highland Park mausoleum. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/p/pitt29811nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb