Jan 1957, Belding Banner News(?), Belding MI

MARY AGNES GEIGER. Mary Agnes Geiger, 68, RFD 3, Belding, died Friday, January 25 at Belding City Hospital. She was born November 19, 1888, at Buffalo, N.Y., and had been a lifetime resident of Belding area. Mrs. Geiger was a member of St. Mary's Chruch, Smyrna Maccabees No. 750, the Friendship Club, and a charter member of Fairview Farmers Club. 

On August 10, 1905, she was married to Karl Geiger, at Miriam. He survives. 

Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Marion Borer, Smyrna; Mrs. Jack Pierce, Belmont; Miss Valerie Geiger, Grand Rapids, and Mrs. Leon Rich, Belding; six sons, John, Ernest, Karl Jr., George and Ray all of Belding, and Paul of Ionia, and one sister-in--law, Mrs. Frank Krupp, Belding. There are 30 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. 

Funeral services were held Monday, January 28, at St. Mary's Church, with the Rev. Fr. Charles Steves officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. 

The six sons will be pallbearers. 

[A date penciled in above the column states 1957] Source: The Carrie Ayers Scrapbook collection - Obituaries 1950-1963. The original scrapbook and a copy are located at the Boston-Saranac Historical Society Depot Museum in Saranac, MI. Another copy is available at the Ionia County Genealogical Society library at the Lake Odessa Area Historical Society Depot Museum, Emerson Street, Lake Odessa, MI.