This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mead, Seeber, Shellenbarger, Sinkler, Wickham, Anderson, Eckhoff Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QFB.2ACE/1492 Message Board Post: Ida Mae Mead, age 93, of Hastings, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003 at Thornapple Manor in Hastings. Ida was born Aug. 4, 1910 in Hastings, the daughter of Bird and Nora (Seeber) Shellenbarger. She graduated from Hastings High School in 1928 and married Clement (Ted) Mead on Christmas Eve in 1929. Ida was employed first at Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids, then Pennock Hospital in Hastings as a nurse aid for 20 years. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Ted Mead; son, Paul Mead of Baldwin, two sisters, Ina Sinkler and Izora Wickham. She is survived by her son, Raymond (Martha) Mead of Hastings; six grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren; six great great grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; special friends, Wilma Anderson and Mary Eckhoff. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003 at the Hastings First United Methodist Church. Rev. Kathy Brown officiating. Burial was at Hastings Township Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Barry Community Foundat! ion/Green Gables Home. Arrangements are by the Girrbach Funeral Home in Hastings. (The Hastings "Reminder" - Tuesday, January 6, 2004) Transcriber has no family connection.