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COURSER, Celia MayEntry/Object ID
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Celia May Courser
Age 78, of Elsie died Thursday, Oct. 10, 1991, at Clinton Memorial Hospital, St. Johns. Services will be held Saturday, Oct. 12, 1 p.m. from the Smith Funeral Home, Elsie. Rev. Lyle Calkins, Rev. Robert Daughenbaugh, and Dr. Richard Cole will officiate with the burial at Saranac Cemetery, Saranac, Mich. Visitation will be 2 to 9 p.m. today with the family present from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
Mrs. Courser was born in Fairview, Mich. on Oct 31, 1912, to Jacob and Matilda (Miller) Clemans. She graduate from Saranac High School. She and Elmer Courser were married on June 17, 1933, in Ionia Mich. He died June 3, 1982.
Mrs. Courser had resided in Elsie for the past 20 years as a homemaker and was a member of Racy Free Methodist Church.
Survivors include: one daughter and spouse, Vickie and Ed Phillips, of Atlanta, Ga., son and spouse, Roger and Carol Courser of Bath, a daughter-in-law and husband Julie and Charles Peters of St. Johns, son and spouse Vance and Sally Courser, of Charlotte; many granchildren; one great-grandchild and one brother, Alvin Clemans of Wyoming, Mich.
Mrs. Courser was predeceased by two children, one grandchild, and six brothers.
Memorials are suggested to the Racy Free Methodist Church Building Fund.
The family is being served by the Smith Funeral Homes, 221 E. Main St., Elsie.
