Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thuma, Opal Grace (Benjamin) 2005 ************************************************ 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 February 26, 2017, 7:39 am Portland Review & Observer, page 12, 6 Mar 2005 Opal Grace Thuma of Sunfield passed away Feb. 24, 2005 at Ovid Healthcare Center at the age of 96. She was born June 25, 1908 in Lebanon Township in Clinton County, the daughter of Fred and Cora (Patterson) Benjamin. In December of 1939 Opal married Clyde Thuma in Woodland. The couple has lived all their married life at the farm on Bippley Road. Opal was proud to be a farmer’s wife, and a home maker, a member of the Church of the Nazarene in Portland, a member of the Ionia County Farm Bureau. Mrs. Thuma was preceded in death by both her parents, her husband, Clyde in 1979; brothers, Gerald, Howard, Vernon Benjamin; and infant brother Donald Benjamin. She is survived by her brother, Eugene (Donna) Benjamin of Fowler; sister in laws, Margaret (John) Wilson of Portland, Naomi (Orlin) Besgrom of Florida, and Bernita Benjamin of St. Johns, and many nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held March 1 at the Rosier Funeral Home, Mapes-Fisher Chapel, Sunfield. Interment was in the East Sebewa Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/thuma5874gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb