Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Root, Doris L. (Briggs) 1970
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 21 Dec 1970

A car-train collision in Arcadia, Fla., December 18, resulted in the death of 
Mrs. Doris L. Root, 61, route 1, Saranac, wife of Lawrence Root, who owned and 
operated a drive-in in Lake Odessa for 20 years before retirement.

She was born in Kalamo township in Eaton county, October 23, 1909, a daughter 
of Leon and Mary Swift Briggs.

Mr. and Mrs. Root were married May 8, 1928, in Charlotte, and the couple made 
their home in Lansing and Charlotte before moving to Lake Odessa in 1948 to 
operate the drive-in.  Following retirement in 1968, the couple moved to a home 
at Morrison lake.

Surviving besides her husband is a son Richard of Hastings, a daughter, Mrs. 
Richard Haddix of Lake Odessa and six grandchildren.  Also surviving is her 
mother, Mrs. Mary Briggs; brother, Gale Briggs, and a sister, Mrs. Velma Myers, 
all of Charlotte.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. December 22, from Pickens funeral chapel in Lake 
Odessa, the Rev. Gary Lyons of the Congregational church officiating.  Burial 
will be in Needmore cemetery in Eaton county.


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