Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Welch, Leah M. (Rogers) 1967 ************************************************ 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 April 3, 2015, 12:20 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 10 Aug 1967 Mrs. Leah M. Welch, 87, of route 1, died early Thursday morning at Ionia County Memorial hospital where she had been a patient the past ten days. Born in Hastings, June 19, 1880, she was the daughter of Daniel and Eliza Rogers. November 24, 1907 she was married to John B. Welch in Grand Rapids, who was Ronald township supervisor for many years and died in 1965. She was a longtime resident of Ronald township, and for the past two and a half years lived at the Ionia Manor. She was a member of First Christian church, OES of Palo, Ronald Grange and Pleasant Hill Literary society. Surviving are one son, Amos Welch; one granddaughter and three great grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Mary Benedict of Ionia, and one brother Willard Rogers of Plymouth. Mrs. Welch will be at Stone-Kauffman funeral home until noon Saturday when she will be taken to First Christian church for services at 2 p.m. with Rev. John Scott officiating. Interment will be in Highland Park cemetery. A memorial has been established which will be added to the John B. Welch memorial at First Christian church. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/welch30415nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb