Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Witmar, Ida L. (Reschke) 1952 ************************************************ 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 August 8, 2011, 11:50 am Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 18 Mar 1952 Mrs. Ida L. Witmar, 80, of Lyons died at the Ionia Rest Home at 11:55 a.m. Monday, March 17, after being ill for 3 ½ years. She was born March 16, 1872, in Wendell, Ind., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reschke. She married Charles F. Witmar in Huron, S.D., September 29, 1896. She had been a resident of Lyons since 1910. The Witmars had five children with a son and daughter preceding her in death. Witmar died April 17, 1930. She was a lifelong member of the Lyons Baptist church. Surviving are a son, Charles G. Witmar, of Muir; two daughters, Mrs. Edna VanNocker of Lansing and Mrs. Ida Stiles of Ionia; 9 grandchildren; 7 great-great grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Rhinehart, Mrs. Bertha Mead and Matilda Millar, all of Spokane, Wash.; and a brother, Gustave Raschke of Omaha, Neb. Services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the Lyons Baptist church. The Rev. Earl F. Buffum will officiate and interment will be in Lyons cemetery. The body will repose at the Shaw-Rivett funeral home until time of service. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/witmar15880nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb