Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives Obituaries.....Simmons, Willard L. 1921 ************************************************ 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: LaVonne I. Bennett lib@dogsbark.com May 17, 2010, 7:42 pm Grand Ledge Independent SMITH, MARY ANN (WELCH) (MRS. B. FRANKLIN): "THE GRAND LEDGE INDEPENDENT, MI, Friday, July 22, 1921, front page: MRS. MARY CHAPMAN, mother of W. B, Smith of this city, who has been ill with paralysis since the latter part of May, passed away at her home near Lake Odessa, July 16, at the age of 84 years. She also leaves two other sons, Elmer Smith and Marcus Chapman, at home." No obituary was found in the Lake Odessa Wave or in Lansing newspapers. There was brief mention of her death in THE WAVE-TIMES, Lake Odessa, MI, pg 5, July 22, 1921: "Woodland (News items) - Frank Smith and his sister Miss Gertie Smith were in Odessa Tuesday afternoon attending the funeral of their aunt Mrs. Mary Chapman who died Saturday from a paralytic stroke." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/simmons5392gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb