Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Platte, Erma B. (Tillitson) 1973 ************************************************ 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 November 20, 2010, 1:43 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 9 Nov 1973 Funeral mass for Mrs. Erma B. Platte, 67, of route 1, Lyons, will be Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Marys church in Westphalia. Interment will be at the church cemetery. Mrs. Platte died Thursday at Sparrow hospital in Lansing. She was born February 22, 1906 at Eagle, the daughter of Elroy and Gertrude McAlister Tillitson. Besides the husband, Anthony of rural Lyons, she leaves five sons, Harold Howard of Lansing, Robert Howard of Livonia, John and Rodney Platte of Lansing and Hilary Platte of Portland; four daughters, Mrs. Eileen Benton of Corpus Christi, Texas, Mrs. Rosemary Lyon of Mulliken, Gertrude Platte of Lansing and Mrs. Pauline Purvis of Lansing; 19 grandchildren and one great grandchild; two brothers, W. J. Tillitson of Eagle and Gordon Tillitson of Charlotte. Rosary will be recited Friday at St. Marys church in Westphalia at 8 p.m. Arrangements were made by Neller funeral home in Portland. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/p/platte9814nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb