Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thorp, Ethel (Young) (Mrs. Bert) July 11, 1975 ************************************************ 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: Maureen Cross mcross3454@gmail.com March 12, 2022, 1:55 pm Lake Odessa Wave - July 17, 1975 SERVICES HELD FOR ETHEL THORP Mrs. Ethel Thorp, 87, Route 1, Portland, passed away late Friday night at the Ionia Manor where she had been a patient for a year and a half. She was born June 25, 1888 in Ionia County, the daughter of Henry and Maria (Probart) Young an dwas a lifelong resident of the Sebewa area. She married Bert Thorp December 24, 1910 at Portland and he passed away July2, 1946. Mrs. Thorp was member of the West Sebewa Church of Christ and a charter member of the West Sebewa Community Club. Surviving are two sons, Kenneth and Marshall of Route 1, Portland; eight grandchildren' six great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Etola Face of Orleans and Mrs. Howard (Marie) Noddins of Belding and a brother, Ernest Young of Ionia, nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 1:30 at the Pickens-Koops Funeral Chapel at Lake Odessa. Lynn Schuchardt officiated with burial at Lakeside Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/thorp42829nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb