Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Towersey, Maggie (Sanders) 1972 ************************************************ 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: Pat Blood pat.blood@gmail.com January 1, 2014, 2:26 pm Ionia Sentinel August 28, 1972 Mrs. Maggie Towersey, 77, of Route 1, Ionia died Saturday evening at Grand Rapids osteopathic Hospital. Born March 25, 1895 in Gratiot County, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Sanders. She had lived in Ionia County the past 32 years residing the past year with a daughter, Mrs. Harvey Heppe of Orleans. She was a member of Lincoln Ave., Baptist Church of Ionia and its ladies missionary prayer band, Pleasant Hill literary club, blue Star mothers, and Philathea Sunday school class of the church. She was married to Sydney Towersey in 1914 and he died in 1963 Surviving our three daughters, Dorothy Towersey of Lansing, Shelby Towersey of Orleans and Mrs. Harvey Heppe of Orleans; five sons, James and Fred of Orleans, John Gerald and Sidney Junior, of Ionia; one brother, George Sanders of Ionia; 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 1 PM at Lincoln Ave., Baptist Church in Ionia. Rev. Lyall Shepard will officiate and internment will be at Wright cemetery near Alma. Mrs. Towersey will be at Stebbins funeral home at Sheridan until noon Tuesday. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/towersey23474nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb