Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wilson, Emmeline (DeQuack) 1976
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 9 Apr 1976

Mrs. Emmeline Wilson, 92, formerly of Lakeview drive, Long Lake, died Thursday
night at Belding Christian Nursing home, following an extended illness.  Born in
Ionia April 29, 1883, she was the daughter of George and Julia Dansforth
DeQuack.  She graduated from Ionia high school and Michigan State college at
East Lansing.

October 19, 1908, she was married to Parke Wilson and they operated the Wilson’s
Photo studio over the Hiler’s store many years.  She also worked at the
Stevenson department store.  She and her husband celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary in 1958.  He died in 1962.  They owned a cottage home at Long Lake
since 1926 and had made their home there since 1947. 

She was a Long Lake area reporter for the Ionia Sentinel-Standard and Belding
Banner several years.  A member of the Shiloh Community church she also was a
member and past matron of the Ionia chapter of Order of Eastern Star and charter
member and first high priestess of Ionic shrine.  She belonged to the Ionia
Senior Citizens and Michigan State college alumni association.

She is survived by cousins.

Services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Leddick funeral home.  Rev.
Kenneth Harger of Shiloh Community church will officiate and interment will be
at Orleans cemetery.  A memorial has been established for the Shiloh Community
church.  Family members will be at the funeral home Friday from 7 to 9 p.m.


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