Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tietz, Frances R. June 9, 1973 ************************************************ 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: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net June 27, 2010, 3:13 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, June 11, 1973 A former Lake Odessa resident, Mrs. Frances R. Tietz, 80, died Saturday afternoon at a rest home at Cincinnati, Ohio following an extended illness. Born May 18, 1893 at Grandville, she was the daughter of Albert and Lena Alberta Dann and came to Lake Odessa with her parents in 1901. She was a graduate of Lake Odessa high school in 1911 and attended summer classes at Mt. Pleasant college. She taught Lake Odessa area rural schools several years and for one year she taught the kindergarten in the Lake Odessa school. In October 1915 she was married to William Tietz of Grand Haven and lived there and at Watervliet before coming to Lake Odessa. (portion illegible)…..Lake Odessa in 1928. they owned and operated the Tietz bakery in Lake Odessa many years. He died about 20 years ago and a son William died in 1963. In later years she worked for the Lake Odessa Wave office and was employed a number of years as clerk in Lake Odessa stores, her last position in a Lake Odessa ……(illegible)….Conn., and Mrs. Arthur Hinman of Cincinnati, Ohio; five grandchildren; brother, Stanley W. Dann of Lake Odessa. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Pickens funeral chapel in Lake Odessa. Rev. Marvin Zimmerman will officiate and interment will be at Lakeside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/tietz6138nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb