Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thompson, Lizzie L. (Trapp) 1957 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net October 2, 2014, 11:28 am Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 8 Apr 1957 Mrs. Lizzie L. Thompson, 84, widow of Emery S. Thompson, of Coats Grove, died Saturday night at 8:45 at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Darby of route three, Hastings, after a lengthy illness. A daughter of John and Mary (LaFever) Trapp she was born December 1, 1872 in Port Jefferson, Ohio, and moved to the Lake Odessa area 37 years ago, from Ohio, living on the J.B. Meyers farm east of Lake Odessa for two years, before she moved to Coats Grove. Her husband, the Rev. Thompson served as pastor of the West Sebewa Church of Christ and also the Coats Grove Church of Christ until 1943, when he retired. Preceded in death by her husband in 1945, she is survived by six daughters, Mrs. Floyd (Florence) Dunnigan, Mrs. Frank (Agnes) Haight, Mrs. Harlow (Dorothy) Barnum and Mrs. Richard (Virginia) Darby, all of Hastings, Mrs. George (Ruth) Luse of Flora, Ill., and Mrs. Kenneth (Martha) Wilcox of Donna, Texas; four sons, Raymond of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., Paul of Battle Creek, Edward of Sunfield and Walter of Bedford, Mich., one sister, Miss Ollie Trapp of Sidney, Ohio, 29 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren. The body will be at the Pickens funeral home in Woodland until Tuesday forenoon, and will then be taken to Coats Grove Church of Christ, where funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, with the Rev. Fay Wing and the Rev. Earl Sease officiating. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/thompson28774nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb