Ionia-Montcalm County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thorpe, Joan I. 2007
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The Greenville Daily News, June 19, 2007


Joan I. Thorpe, 74, passed away Monday, June 18, 2007, at Spectrum Health 
United Memorial United Campus, Greenville.  She was born February 26, 1933, in 
Ionia, the daughter of Robert W. and LaVona I. Nimz Peabody.

After graduating from high school, followed by the “College of Hard Knocks,” 
she was a mother, grandmother and mother hen to 150 kids at Meijer in 
Greenville, where she had worked for many years.  

Joan was preceded in death by her husband, James E. Thorpe; son, Steven A. 
Thorpe; granddaughter, Roseanne Thorpe; mother-in-law, Gladys Thorpe; sister, 
Elaine Cook; brother, Robert Peabody; and a special friend, Paul Bacon.

She is survived by her children, Yvonne and Bill Bunce, Stuart and April 
Thorpe, all of Greenville; grandchildren, Michael, Manda, Nicole, Krystle and 
Jocelyn; sister and brother-in-law, Ken and Katie Wray of Saranac; and many 
nieces and nephews.

Funeral services are 11 a.m. Thursday at Marshall Funeral Home, Greenville, 
with Pastor Ken Harger officiating.  Burial will be in Rest Haven Memory 
Gardens, Belding.  Visitation is from 2 to 4 and 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at 
the funeral home.  Memorial contributions may be made in Joan’s name to Big 
Brothers Big Sisters.


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