Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Watkins, Myrtle (Fleming) 1955 ************************************************ 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 June 4, 2017, 7:32 am Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, page 5, 14 May 1955 Mrs. Myrtle Watkins, 86, 309 West Riverside Drive died Friday at 6 p.m. at the Ionia County Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient since April 17 with a hip fracture. Mrs. Watkins was born Sept. 8, 1868, in Easton township, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fleming and had lived her entire life in Easton township and Ionia. She was married to Arthur Watkins in 1885. She was a member of the First Methodist church and a charter member of the American Legion auxiliary. Survivors are five sons, William of Caro, Bert of Flint, Charles of Ionia, Leo of Saranac, and Perry of Lansing; one sister, Mrs. Nettie Simmons of Berlin township; nine grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren. Mr. Watkins died in 1948. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Boynton funeral home. The Rev. Heath T. Goodwin will officiate. Interment will be in the family plot in Easton cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/watkins6474gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb