Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Westbrook, Nellie Mae 1981
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, August 19, 1981

Nellie Mae Westbrook, 96, died Monday in Greenfield, Mass.  She was born in 
Campbell Township April 10, 1885, the oldest daughter of John Cornelius and 
Julia Ann Griffin Sullivan.  She attended rural schools and on June 21, 1904, 
graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in Grand Rapids.

She taught four years in Campbell Township schools and two years in Wyoming 
Township, Kent County.  

She was married to Ralph Lee Westbrook in St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Grand 
Rapids, June 21, 1910.  They made their home on a farm in Sebewa Township for 
four years and in April 1914 moved to Ionia Township where she lived until 
1948.  In 1949 she moved to Hartford, Conn., with a daughter and family and 
then to Greenfield, Mass., in 1954, where she resided until her death.  

Her husband died March 2, 1927.  Two daughters preceded her in death, 
Gertrude, who died Dec. 14, 1927, and Jane Baker, who died Aug. 8, 1976.  
Surviving are five daughters: Pauline Yancey of Clarksville, Tenn.; Francis 
Bernier of Greenfield, Mass.; Elizabeth Kittell of Tecumseh, Mich.; Ruth 
Honton of Tucson, Ariz.; and Crysta Julian of Grand Rapids; and two sons, 
Richard Westbrook of Ionia and John Westbrook of Muir.  Also surviving are 27 
grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren.

Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.  Funeral mass will be at SS. Peter 
and Paul Church, of which she was a member, Friday at 2 p.m.  Burial will be 
in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Ionia.  The family will be at the funeral home 
Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.



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