Lillian Walls
LILLIAN TRUDELL
TRENARY- Lillian Trudell, 92 of Trenary, died Wednesday at the Munising Memorial Hospital following a one-year illness.
Mrs. Trudell was born Sept. 19, 1899 in Gladstone to the late Enoch and Mary (Grainger) Walls, and had lived in Trenary most of her life. Her family was one of the first to settle at Winter's Corner near Trenary.
She married Charles Trudell June 24, 1920 in Munising. She was affiliated with the Methodist church. Mrs. Trudell was a former member of the Alger County Historical Society and the Trenary American Legion Auxiliary.
She attended Trenary schools and was a member of the first graduating class of William G. Mather High School in Munising in 1918. She attended Marquette Normal School and taught third grade at Camp A at Reddy Lake in Alger County. Her family owned and operated a dairy farm near Winter's Corner for many years. She was also a homemaker.
Surviving are two sons, Clayton and Ronald of Trenary; two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Keller of Chelsea and Mrs. Richard (Angela) Baldinger of Whitmore Lake; two brothers, Bernard Walls of Saginaw, and Kenneth Walls of Waterford; three grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1956; a son, Howard in 1990; a sister Olive June in 1990, a brother Conrad in 1989.
Services will be held at 2 P.M. Saturday at the Bowerman Funeral Chapel in Munising with the Rev. Ray Peterson, pastor of the United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Trenary cemetery.
Visitation will be at the Bowerman Funeral Home from 6 to 8 P.M. Friday and from 1 P.M. until the services Saturday.
Escanaba Daily Press
Thursday March 5, 1992
