Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tafel, Sophia 1897 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net August 4, 2010, 2:21 pm The Ionia Standard, Friday, December 17, 1897 Sophia Luder Tafel, relict of the late Frederick Tafel, died Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Herman Hahn. Mrs. Tafel had attained the ample age of 81 years. She was born in the Province Pomans, Germany, and was the faithful mother of eight children, seven of whom are yet living, viz: John, Frederick and Louis, of this city, and Mrs. Herman Hahn and Mrs. John Hoth, also of this city, and Mrs. Christian Rebfus, of Muir, and Mrs. Schultz, of Joliet, Ill. Funeral will be on Friday afternoon from St. John’s Lutheran church, and interment will be beside her husband in Oak Hill. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/tafel7674nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb