WRIDE (MARTIN) - MRS. ELSIE WRIDE, aged 90, widow of TOM ATKINS, and EARL WRIDE, passed away Friday in Cedar Springs Nursing Center.

Surviving are her children, MRS. CORAL JACOBS of Sand Lake, JACK and MARGARET ATKINS of Mesa, AZ; 13 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; a sister, MRS. RUSSELL (BEATRICE) McCONNELL of Grand Rapids; a sister-in-law, MRS. CORDELIA DAVIS of Wyoming; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral Services will be held Monday at 1pm in the Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Raymond Gaylord of Cascade Christian Church and Rev. Russell McConnell officiating. Interment Martin Cemetery. Memorials to Cedar Springs Nursing Center will be appreciated. The family will receive friends Sunday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Metcalf & Jonkhoff, 4291 Cascade Rd SE.

THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS, Grand Rapids, Mich., Sun., Sept. 21 1986, Pg. G23, Col. 6, Obit. 4

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KENT COUNTY, MICHIGAN, MARRIAGE RECORDS (1918), Pg. 243, Record No. 7517 - LEON T. ATKINS & ELSIE MARTIN, married 1 December 1918, in Ada, Kent Co., Mich. LEON (Salesman), 22, of Alma, Mich., b. in Saginaw, Mich., son of GEO. ATKINS & DORA ROBINSON. ELSIE (Nurse), 23, of Ada, Mich., b. in Grand Rapids, dau. of ARTHUR R. MARTIN & LIZZIE STEVENS. Married by W.E. Lyon, Pastor. Witnesses: Mildren M. Averill & Alice Nellist, both of Ada, Mich. Neither Leon or Elsie have been previously married.

As of 27 August 2012, a digitial copy of this record can be viewed at: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12042-131644-53?cc=1452395

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1930 U.S. CENSUS, ALLEGAN CITY, ALLEGAN TWP., ALLEGAN CO., MI, 9 April 1930
Atkins, Leon T. (Head), 33, b. MI (Parents b. MI), 1st Married at 21 Yrs., Salesman - Clothing & Shoe Store
ATKINS, ELSIE (Wife), 34, b. MI (Father b. MI / Mother b. England), 1st Married at 23 Yrs.
Atkins, Coral J. (Daughter), 8, b. MI (Parents b. MI)
Atkins, Jack E. (Son), 6, b. MI (Parents b. MI)
Live at 433 Trowbridge Street.