Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Spitzley, Katherine E. 2009
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Katherine E. Spitzley, of Ionia, age 90, passed away on Monday, June 22, 2009. 

She was born on Aug. 27, 1918 in Portland, Mich. the daughter of Roy and 
Bessie (Grenier) Shepherd. She attended St. Patrick Catholic School before 
moving to Ionia in 1926 where she attended Ss. Peter and Paul Academy from 
which she graduated with the class of 1936. She married William "Jim" Spitzley 
of Westphalia on Oct. 21, 1939 and lived in rural Westphalia on the Spitzley 
homestead the first five years of her married life. They then moved to a farm 
north of Ionia in Ronald Township where they resided for 44 years before 
moving to Easton Township. She was a member of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic 
Church, the Altar Rosary Society, the St. Catherine Circle and Knights of 
Columbus Auxiliary. She was a volunteer worker for her church and the 
Commission on Aging for many years.

She is survived by two sons, Dennis (Delores) Spitzley of Ionia and Lawrence 
(Pamela) Spitzley of Fenwick; four daughters, Susan Hogan of Centerville, 
Ohio, Patricia (Thomas) Reinhardt of Ionia, Phyllis (Danny) Richardson of 
Grand Rapids and Mary Hogle; special friend Kevin Walsh of Grand Rapids; 
special friend, Nancy O'Brien of Mt. Pleasant; 22 wonderful grandchildren; 37 
precious great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-granddaughter; many step-
grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren; special 
niece, Elizabeth Slowinski Currie and nephew Joseph Slowinski and their 
families, plus many other nieces and nephews and sisters-in-law, Lucille 
Shepherd of Kalkaska and Estelle Schafer of Lansing. 

She was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years in June of 1995, son 
Francis Spitzley in 2004, son-in-law Tom Pancza in 1997, grandson-in-law Tim 
Ackerson in 1995, her parents, four brothers, Daniel, James, George and Joseph 
and sister, Alice.

The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by the Rev. Melvin Fox, Pastor 
at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 25, 2009 at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church with 
Rite of Committal following at Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery. The family will 
receive friends at the Schrauben-Lehman Funeral Home, 220 Rich Street, Ionia 
from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Wednesday. A Scriptural Wake Service will be held at 7 
p.m. Wednesday. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the 
Ss. Peter and Paul Scholarship Fund, the Ionia County Commission on Aging, or 
to the American Heart Association, in memory of Mrs. Katherine E. Spitzley.



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