Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

DRAKE

Coe

Greenman

Holmes

Jones

Kellum

Konrad

Marr

Seabury

Sweet

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE – September 5, 1996

Nellie E. Drake

June 1, 1906 - Sept. 3, 1996

Nellie E. Drake, 90, of South Haven, Mich., passed away Tuesday evening, at Countryside Nursing Home, South Haven.

She was born on June 1, 1906 in Raftdrum, Idaho. She was married to Austin H. Drake, who preceded her in death in 1978.

She is survived by two daughters, Patricia Drake Holmes and her husband, Roy N. and their three children, Paul Holmes, Thomas Holmes and Christine Coe of Rochester, N.Y.; and Barbara Konrad and her husband, Robert and their children, Tim and Ted Greenman and Tristan Marr, Tracey Greenman and Tiffany Greenman; stepgrandchildren, Judy Sweet, Donna Kellum and Robin Seabury; and 11 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Albert Jones and Rebecca (Kirk) Jones, and two brothers and two sisters.

Services will be Friday, at 2:30 p.m., in Calvin Starks & Frost Funeral Home, 365 Center St., South Haven, with Rev. Robert Linstrom of First English Lutheran Church, of which she was a member, officiating. Burial will follow in Lakeview Cemetery, South Haven. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 1:30 p.m. to the time of service. The family has asked that memorials be made to Countryside Nursing Home.