Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ritter, Florence M. (Carbaugh) 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, 2:07 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 12 Nov 1973 Mrs. Florence M. Ritter, 79, of Lake Odessa died Sunday morning at Provincial house in Hastings. She was admitted there October 23 from Osteopathic hospital in Grand Rapids. Born in Portland, April 21, 1894, she was the daughter of George and Jennie Kneale Carbaugh and was a 1912 graduate of Portland high school. She was married to Harold Ritter of Lake Odessa February of 1925. They lived in Detroit many years until his retirement when they moved to a farm on Musgrove highway in 1957. After her husband’s death December 7, 1970, she purchased a home in Lake Odessa where she had made her home since. She was a member of United Methodist church of Lake Odessa and the United Methodist Women’s organization; Lake Odessa senior citizens; Lake Odessa chapter of OES, Lakeside auxiliary chapter of World War I Veterans, the Three by Four club, Friendship Club, West Odessa Missionary Service, and Wooland Wagoneers Pony club. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Minnie Clark of Lake Odessa. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at Pickens-Koops funeral home in Lake Odessa. Rev. Marvin Zimmerman will officiate and interment will be at Lakeside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/r/ritter9825nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb