Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thornton, Elaine Rose (Leach) 2002
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 7 May 2002

Elaine Rose (Leach) Thornton, 85, of Bloomington, Ind., died Monday at the home 
of her daughter, Sonja.  She was born June 11, 1916 in Detroit, the daughter of 
Floyd “Todd” and Eva Marie (Cornell) Leach.

A graduate of Charlotte High School in Charlotte, Elaine was a pianist, an 
artist, and a master seamstress.  She was employed in the 1940s by LaRue 
Photography Studio in Charlotte, worked as a dressmaker and seamstress in Lake 
Odessa, and in Foley, Ala. and Gulf Shores, Ala. for more than 35 years.

She attended First United Methodist Church in Bloomington, Ind., but had 
retained her membership at Central United Methodist Church in Lake Odessa.  
Elaine was also a member of Foley Senior Center in Foley, Ala. and the “55” 
Senior Center in Pensacola, Fla.

Survivors include two daughters; Rhoda L. (Bracy) Gould of Charlotte, Sonja A. 
(Bracy) Jackson of Bloomington, Ind.; a son, Dexter G. Bracy of Portland; nine 
grandchildren; two step-granddaughters; seven great-grandchildren; and four 
step-great grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her husband, Murrell L. 
Thornton, in 1983; her brother, Willis Leach, of Charlotte; and a 
granddaughter, Dawn Elaine Gould, who died in infancy.

A private memorial service will be held in Michigan at a later date.  Elaine 
donated her body to Indiana University Medical School’s Anatomical Education 
Program.  Interment of her cremains will be in Crown Hill Cemetery in 
Indianapolis.  Memorial contributions may be made to the Anatomical Education 
Program, 635 Barnhill Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5120; to your local 
Alzheimer’s Support Group, or to Hospice of Bloomington, c/o Bloomington 
Hospital, 601 W. Second St., Bloomington, IN 47404.


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