Born: January 08, 1928
Died: October 08, 2011
Services: The service for Mrs. Armstrong will be Thursday at 11:00 a.m. at the Pederson Funeral Home with Bishop Gary Perras officiating. Interment in Rockford Cemetery.
Visitation: Relatives and friends may meet with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Mrs. Barbara L. Armstrong, age 83, passed away on Saturday, October 8, 2011. She and her husband, Richard, were grade school sweethearts and graduated together from Rockford High School in 1941. In 1965 she and Richard started Wolverine Dispatch where she helped with the business. Barbara was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and was very active in the church. Her passion was genealogy, and she particularly liked helping at the church library. Barbara was a godly wife, mother, and grandmother. She had a love for good music. Barbara is survived by her children, Christopher and Celeste Armstrong of Rockford, David and Julie Armstrong of Grandville, and Richard and Merrill Armstrong of Rockford; 12 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; and her husband’s aunt, Byrdie Sarkees. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard R. Armstrong, her son, Allen, her daughter-in-law, Pamela Armstrong, her brother, Roger Koops, her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Pauline and Harold Streeter.
Memorials: Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 2780 Leonard St., NE, Grand Rapids.
Cemetery: Rockford Cemetery
Died: October 08, 2011
Services: The service for Mrs. Armstrong will be Thursday at 11:00 a.m. at the Pederson Funeral Home with Bishop Gary Perras officiating. Interment in Rockford Cemetery.
Visitation: Relatives and friends may meet with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Mrs. Barbara L. Armstrong, age 83, passed away on Saturday, October 8, 2011. She and her husband, Richard, were grade school sweethearts and graduated together from Rockford High School in 1941. In 1965 she and Richard started Wolverine Dispatch where she helped with the business. Barbara was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and was very active in the church. Her passion was genealogy, and she particularly liked helping at the church library. Barbara was a godly wife, mother, and grandmother. She had a love for good music. Barbara is survived by her children, Christopher and Celeste Armstrong of Rockford, David and Julie Armstrong of Grandville, and Richard and Merrill Armstrong of Rockford; 12 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; and her husband’s aunt, Byrdie Sarkees. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard R. Armstrong, her son, Allen, her daughter-in-law, Pamela Armstrong, her brother, Roger Koops, her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Pauline and Harold Streeter.
Memorials: Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 2780 Leonard St., NE, Grand Rapids.
Cemetery: Rockford Cemetery
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