Lenawee County MI Archives Obituaries.....Spriggs, Bessie February 1948 ************************************************ 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: Leslie Parsels parsels@med.umich.edu January 18, 2007, 8:15 pm The Adrian (MI) Daily Telegram, Thursday, February 19, 1948, p 6 col 4 Mrs. Bessie PARSELS SPRIGGS, widow of Ernest Lee SPRIGGS, who formerly resided at 1041 East Butler street, died at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday at Foote Memorial hospital in Jackson after an extended illness. She was 64 years old. Born November 4, 1883 in Fairfield township, she was the daughter of the late James and Mary PARSELS. She married George M. PFISTER in 1901, and moved to Detroit in 1906. She resided there until 1936 when she moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., returning to Adrian in 1943 to care for her brother Fred PARSELS, who died November 9, 1946. She married Mr. SPRIGGS in November, 1936, and he died September 19, 1947. She was a charter member of the Women's Benefits Association. Surviving are a son Kenneth L. PFISTER of Windsor, Ont.; one granddaughter; a brother William PARSELS of Jackson, and a number of nieces and nephews. The funeral will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Everiss Funeral Home. The Rev. A.H. Wallschlaeger will officiate. The burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. [Note: Frederick C. Parsels died 7 Nov 1946, not 9 Nov 1946] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/lenawee/obits/s/spriggs1768gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb