Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tanner, Esther Ruth 1993 ************************************************ 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 20, 2010, 2:26 am Ionia Sentinel Standard TANNER, ESTHER RUTH: SENTINEL-STANDARD, IONIA, MI, 3-19-1993: "OBITUARIES - E. RUTH TANNER - IONIA - E. Ruth Tanner, 69, of Ionia, died Wednesday evening at Metropolitan Hospital in Grand Rapids. She was born January 26, 1924, in Ionia, the daughter of Abram and Ivah Robinson Tanner and was educated at Ionia Schools. She attended County Normal and Western Michigan University and was a teacher all of her working life in the Grand Rapids School system, retiring in June of 1982. She was a member of the Retired Teachers Association; a member of the Ionia First Baptist Church; and a member of the Ionia Camp of the Rebeccah's. She is survived by two nieces, Jill Noll of Sheridan and Susan Perdue of Stanwood; two great nephews; three great nieces; and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents; and one sister, Marjorie Warren in 1982. Memorial services and committal will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the Ionia First Baptist Church, with the Rev. James Bennett officiating. Organist will be Dorothy Horrocks. Burial will be in the spring in Balcom Cemetery. A memorial has been established for the First Baptist Church, in care of Myers Memorial Chapel, Ionia." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/tanner4377nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb