Starr, Anna M.

Anna M. Starr
Feb. 13, 1885-March 18, 1976

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, March 18, 1976, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Anna M. Starr, 91, of Ann Arbor, formerly of Niles, died at 12:55 a.m. Today at the Evangelical Home at Saline, Mich., after a three-year illness.

Mrs. Starr was born Feb. 13, 1885, at Chicago and moved to Ann Arbor from Niles in 1965. She was a member of the Pawating Hospital Auxiliary and Wesley United Methodist Church. Her husband, Henry, whom she married Aug. 10 1907, at South Bend, died in 1956.

Surviving are a sons, Joel of Sand Lake, Mich.; four daughters, Mrs. Gladys Barera of Ann Arbor, Mrs. Alma Wolven of Belmont, Mich., Mrs. Lucille Hunting of Chula Vista, Calif., and Mrs. Althea Luyk of Byron Center, Mich.; a brother, Gus Peterson of Kankakee, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Florence Heck of Kankakee, 25 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Pifer Chapel of the Swem-Smith Funeral Home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Friday.  Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.