Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Shindorf, Mary Maxine 2008 ************************************************ 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 July 7, 2013, 8:41 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Mary Maxine (Banhagel) Shindorf, 88, of Belding, passed away on March 11, 2008, after a lengthy battle with cancer. Mary was born to Fern (Chadwick) and Ben Banhagel in Ionia, Mich. on May 20, 1919. She graduated from Saint Peter and Paul's Academy in Ionia and after graduation worked in Ann Arbor, Mich. until her marriage to Joseph A. Shindorf, of Belding on Oct. 19, 1946. She was a charter member of the Forest Grove and Freedom Acres School, a lifelong member of Saint Joseph's Church and also a PTA member of Saint Joseph's School. She was hostess of the Ave Maria Guild, a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion, and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Michigan Submarine Veterans. She was preceded in death by her parents; four sisters, Agnes Paris, Ruth Whitham, Doris Fisher-Schuler and Dorothy Onweller. Mary is survived by her husband Joseph and their seven children, Albert (Ann) Shindorf, Mary (Bob) Rasmussen, Jo Ann (Phil) Bryant, Charles (Betty Jo) Shindorf, Melinda (Keith) Krick, Tim (Cindy) Shindorf and Jerome Shindorf, 12 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Belding with Father Fred Brucker presiding. Interment will follow in St. Joseph Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday 5 to 7 p.m., with a rosary prayed at 6:30 at Johnson-Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding. Visitation will also be one hour before Mass at church. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Ionia Area Hospice or to the Area 6 Special Olympics. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/shindorf21445nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb