Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tafel, Minnie 1936
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, June 29, 1936

Mrs. Minnie Tafel, 84, died Saturday afternoon June 27, at 4:30 o’clock at the 
home of her son Ferd Tafel, 653 North Jefferson street, after a six months 
illness.

Mrs. Tafel was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hacker and was born March 
24, 1852.  At the age of 20 she married John Tafel and four years later they 
moved to Ionia.  Mr. Tafel died in 1901.  Mrs. Tafel has lived in her present 
home 426 Allen street for the past sixty years.  She was a charter member in 
the St. Johns Lutheran church.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Fred Thomas of Cannonsburg, and Mrs. August 
Lempke, of Ionia; four sons, Louis Tafel, of Saginaw; Ferd Tafel, of Ionia; 
Robert Tafel, of Saginaw, and Helmuth Tafel of Ionia; thirty-one grandchildren 
and fourteen great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held from the home of her son, 652 North Jefferson 
street 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon June 30 and at 2:30 o’clock from the St. 
John’s Lutheran church.  Rev. R. A. Rook will officiate and interment will be 
at Oak Hill cemetery.


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