Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Woodbury, Helen Augusta Maynard March 30, 1949
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Lansing State Journal, March 31,  1949
Portland, March 31 - Mrs. Helen A. Woodbury,  91, died at the home at 1 
o'clock Wednesday afternoon. She had been in ill health for several years.   
She was born in Portland township, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
Maynard.  Her  father and Capt. E.M. Allen, founded the firm of Maynard & 
Allen,  which is now known as the Maynard-Allen State bank.  At 20 she 
married Arastus Woodbury who died in Sept., 1923.  Mrs. Woodbury was a 
director of the Maynard-Allen State bank;  a member of the Ladies Literary 
club and the Methodist church.  Funeral services will be held Saturday 
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Neller Funeral Home, which is the home her 
grandfather, William Churchill, resided in  many years ago.  Miss Barbara 
Keilen has been Mrs. Woodbury's companion for many years and aided in her 
care during her long illness. Relatives include several cousins in Montana 
and Flint, besides Mrs. Frances Reynolds and Charles Sprout of Portland and 
Herbert Schafer of Portland;  Richard Schafer of Detroit;  Mrs. Ross Frantz, 
Rochester;  Mrs. Ferd Esch, Lapeer;  Mrs. Paul Smith, Pontiac are second 
cousins.

Additional Comments:
The Maynard-Woodbury home is located at 510 E. Bridge St in Portland, MI.
Helen Maynard married Erastus (article spelled Arastus) Woodbury on January 
16, 1878. 
Erastus was co-proprietor of the Churchill & Woodbury store on E. Bridge St. 
in Portland.
Helen Churchill Maynard, the mother of Helen, was the daughter of Fidella 
Ramsey and William R. Churchill. The Churchill/Neller home is located at 210 
E. Bridge St. in Portland.
The Maynard-Allen State Bank is in 2016, the Huntington Bank.
Frances Churchill Reynolds was long time librarian at the Carnegie Portland 
library. Francis's twin sister, Helen, married Herbert Schaffer (incorrectly 
spelled Schafer in the obituary) were Helen's aunts as was Emma, the wife of 
Charles Sprout. 

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