Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Snell, Kitrenah (Bliss) 1944
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 31 Aug 1944

Mrs. Kitrenah Snell, 84, died in the Ionia County Community hospital about 5 
o’clock Wednesday afternoon.  She had been in the hospital two weeks.  Mrs. 
Snell, the widow of Watson C. Snell, had been an Ionia resident since 1895.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Bradley 
funeral home, Rich and Lafayette streets.  Rev. Adam Westmaas will conduct the 
services and burial will be at Highland Park cemetery.  Mrs. Snell’s body will 
repose at the Bradley home.

Mr. and Mrs. Snell came to Ionia in 1895 from Albion where they were married in 
1885.  They built a home, the house now owned by Mrs. John Adgate, 642 West 
Main street.

Mrs. Snell was born December 9, 1859, in Albion, daughter of Samuel and Isabel 
Kellogg Bliss.  She had resided in Ionia since moving here with her husband.

She was a life member of Eastern Star, the White Shrine and the Rebekahs, a 
charter member of the White Shrine, past matron of the Eastern Star, and past 
noble grand of the Rebekahs.

Surviving are two children, Mrs. Maggie Wright of Ionia and Clifford Snell of 
Petoskey, three grandchildren, Ruth Wright and Jack Wright of Ionia and Dorris 
LaPeer of Petoskey, and two great-grandchildren.

Ionia Sentinel Standard, 2 Sep 1944

Final rites for Mrs. Kitrenah Snell, 84, of Ionia were held Friday at the 
Bradley funeral home.  Rev. A. J. Westmaas, pastor of the First Presbyterian 
church, officiated, and burial was in the family lot in Highland Park 
cemetery.  In charge of floral arrangements were Mrs. Bert Martin, Mrs. James 
Mackin and Mrs. Louise Black.  Pallbearers were Bert Fox, Harry Lyle, James 
Macklin and Emanuel Rafus.


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