Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Quillan, Gertrude M. August 9, 2013 ************************************************ 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: Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com January 19, 2015, 6:42 pm Greenville Daily News - Wed. aug. 14, 2013 BELDING- Gertrude M. Quillan, 81, of Belding, passed away Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, at home under the loving care of her family and Hospice. Gert was born in Tipton, MO., on July 9, 1932, the daughter of John and Eleanor (Knipp) Verlinden. Gert was an active and long time member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Belding, and enjoyed helping on funeral luncheons, vacation Bible School, religious education of the youth and was a Eucharist minister and earlier years she had worked at Russell's Jewelry in Belding, Wolf's Fine Jewelry and Huch's Jewelry in Greenville. She will be greatly missed by her family and many friends. After meeting Jerome Quillan at a dance while he was stationed in Missouri they were married on Sept. 3, 1956, in Tipton, MO., and he preceded her in death on May 20, 2010. Gert is loved and survived by her son, John Quillan of Belding; her grandchildren, Brandon Quillan of Grand Rapids, Talar Quillan of Grandville; and her sisters and brothers, Judith, Mary Jo, Wanda, Rita, Geraldine, Gerald and John. She was preceded in death by her parents. Mass of Christian burial will be 11 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Belding with Fr. Darrel Kempf presiding. Committal prayers will follow in St. Joseph Cemetery. The family will greet relatives and friends from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday with a rosary prayed at 7:30 p.m. at Johnson-Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding. Memorial contribution may be given to St. Joseph Church or the Alvah N. Belding Library. Messages of condolence may also be given at www.jffh.com. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/q/quillan29623nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb