Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Pranger, Muriel M. June 28, 2011
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Ionia Sentinel Standard - June 30, 2011


Muriel M. Pranger entered the Heavenly Father’s Flower Garden on Tuesday June 
28, 2011. She was greeted in joyful reunion by her husband Sherman, grandson 
David (Vollink), and sister Nina (Ensing). Born on August 6, 1922 in West 
Olive, MI, Muriel moved to Sebewa Township at the age of 5 where she would live 
out all of her years. Muriel worked her family farm in her youth where she 
developed a great love for gardening and landscaping from her mother. Muriel 
met Sherm, a carpenter from South Dakota through their church. They enjoyed a 
long courtship and became engaged before Sherm joined the army to fight in 
WWII. Muriel traveled the country with Sherm to different camps and they were 
married on September 5, 1942 at Camp Robinson, Arkansas. When Sherm was 
deployed to Europe Muriel returned to Sebewa and began working for was would 
become GenCorp, where she would eventually spend 35 years. Sherm and Muriel 
designed and built their home in West Sebewa where they would raise their 
daughter, two grandchildren, and be blessed to know three great-grandchildren. 
Muriel had a great love for her family, who were with her at her home through 
her final days and at her side when she passed away. Muriel loved to be outside 
with her hands in the dirt, creating beautiful flower gardens and watching the 
birds and squirrels.  She was a great cook who never let anyone go home hungry, 
and loved to can and preserve the foods she grew. She hated weeds and dead 
trees. Muriel left a loving legacy for her daughter and son-in-law Pamela and 
William Robinson, granddaughter Jennifer (Vollink) Tyler and special friend 
Keith Harwood, granddaughter and grandson-in-law Becky Vollink and Tyler 
Staples, great-grandchildren Brogan Tyler, Emma and Mitchell Vollink, sister 
and brother-in-law Donna and Carl Huizenga, sister and brother-in-law Arlene 
and Ron Whalen, and many loving nieces and nephews. A Celebration of Life 
Services will be held 11:00 A.M., -Friday July 1, 2011 at the Rosier Funeral 
Home, Mapes-Fisher Chapel, Sunfield, Michigan with Pastor Jeffrey J. Schrock of 
the Sebewa Center United Methodist Church officiating. Visitation will be 2 
hours prior to the service. Contribution may be made in Muriel’s memory in care 
of the family to be used for a memorial garden at the house. C/O RFH PO Box 36 
Sunfield, MI 48890. Express your thoughts and memories in the online Guest Book 
at www.legacy.com. The family is being served by the Independent Family Owned 
Funeral Home in Sunfield; Rosier Funeral Home. 



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