Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Simmons, Lettie May (McElroy) 1942
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Belding Banner-News, 23 Apr 1942

Aged Pioneer Lady Dies After Short Illness

Funeral Services To Be Held Friday Afternoon From Fales

Mrs. A. I. Simmons, who was among the oldest residents of this city, passed away
Wednesday morning at 6:30 in the city hospital, where she had been a patient
since Tuesday afternoon.  She had been ill since Saturday with flu.  Had she
lived until the 22nd of next month, she would have been 81 years of age.

She was born Lettie May McElroy, May 22, 1861, in Ada, Ohio, the daughter of
George and Eliza McElroy.  At the age of two she came with her parents to
Michigan and the family settled on a farm south of Belding, later moving to this
city.  She received her elementary education in the schools here.

Mrs. Simmons was employed for a time in the Richardson silk mill.  In 1918 she
and her husband started a business with a newsstand in what is now the Taylor
coal office.  Following Mr. Simmons death in 1927, she continued on with the
business for a time.  She was a member of the Church of Christ, a charter member
of the American Legion Auxiliary and a former Maccabee member.

Surviving are four sons, Ivan, Lynn and Lyle, all of whom reside in this city,
and Roy of Los Angeles, Calif.; a daughter Mrs. Ethel Stone, of Greenville, and
five grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 at Fales funeral home
with Rev. F.W. Guenther of the Baptist church officiating, and burial will be in
the old Belding cemetery.


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