Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Westbrook, Mary Minnie 1952
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, April 14, 1952
Mrs. Mary Minnie Westbrook, 96, of Muir, a resident of Ionia county since 
before the Civil War, died Monday at 9:00 a.m. at the Ionia Convalescent Home, 
where she had been  a patient for five weeks.  She had been in failing health 
for the past four years, but seriously ill only the past five weeks.

She was born May 12, 1855, in Augusta, daughter of Richard and Martha Adams.  
She moved with her parents when a child to Keene township.  Her father fought 
during the Civil War with the Union army.  She attended Ionia rural schools 
and Hastings high school.  For nine years she taught school in Ionia and Kent 
Counties, and also for a few years in Manistee.  Among the schools she taught 
were Marble school, Pinckney school, now known as Sayles school in Keene 
township, and Alton and Waters schools in Kent county.

On May 7, 1882 she married Prindle Westbrook.  They lived most of their 
married life in Campbell and Ionia townships before moving to Muir in 1914 on 
the present farm home of a son, Mark Westbrook.  They celebrated their golden 
wedding in 1932 with friends and relatives, and in 1941, only a few months 
before her husband’s death, celebrated their 59th anniversary with relatives 
at the family home.  He died September 9, 1941.  Mrs. Westbrook is a member of 
the Methodist church.  

Surviving are three sons, Mark Westbrook of Muir and Donald and Ross Westbrook 
of Sacramento, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Mattie Rogers of Okemos, Mrs. 
Hazel Garrison of East Lansing and Mrs. Almeda Durkee of Grand Rapids; 30 
grandchildren; 52 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren, and two 
brothers, Grant of Lowell and Earl of Grand Rapids.  A son, Ralph, preceded 
her in death in 1927.  Mrs. Westbrook had seven grandsons who served in World 
War II.

The body was removed to Shaw-Rivett funeral home in Muir, where arrangements 
are pending word from the sons in California.


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