Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Pratt, Helen A. 1923 ************************************************ 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 May 8, 2012, 7:24 pm The Portland Observer, Thursday, May 17, 1923 Mrs. Helen A. Pratt, widow of the late Elija Pratt, died Wednesday of last week, at her home in Ionia township. The funeral services were held at the house at two o’clock Saturday afternoon and interment made in the family lot at Saranac. Rev. C. J. Kruse, pastor of the Ionia M. E. church, officiated. Mrs. Pratt was a pioneer teacher in the rural schools of Ionia county and at one time taught the Sessions school in the little stone school house just west of the county farm, said to be the first institution of learning to be erected in Ionia county. She was 78 years old. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/p/pratt17762nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb