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In Memoriam

Beatrice Kinney (Curtis) - Class Of 1931

Beatrice Ruth Kinney, youngest child of Edward Porter (1867-1955) and Minnie Sarah (Graham) (1869-1949) Kinney, was born 13 April 1913 East Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan.  She graduated Salutatorian of her 1931 Okemos High School Class.  Bea went on to Ferris Institute and received a business degree.  In 1961 Bea married widower Loris Curtis. Loris, son of Jesse B. and Edith (Baldwin) Curtis, was born 27 February 1906 Mason, Ingham County.  He died 20 September 1992.  Bea died 3 January 2010 and was interred Mt. Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Ingham County under the same headstone as her brother, Ernest Allen Kinney (1898-1966).

Lansing State Journal 17 January 2010

BEATRICE RUTH (KINNEY) CURTIS

EAST TAWAS

Age 96, died Sunday, January 3, 2010.  Bea was born April 13, 1913 in East Lansing, Michigan.

She was born in the old Phyleon House, which is now the present Sigma Chi House at M.S.U.  Bea graduated from Okemos High School in 1931 and was the Salutatorian of her class.  After graduation, Bea chose not to follow her seven brothers and sisters who attended M.S.U.  Thus, she attended Ferris Institute and graduated with a business degree.  Bea was employed at the Boston Ins. Co. in Lansing and later in the Landscape-Urban Planning Dept. at Michigan State University.  She often told her family how she loved her peaceful lunches while sitting on the bank of the Red Cedar River.  Beatrice was married to Loris Curtis in December of 1961.  She was an active member of Peoples Church in East Lansing.  Bea was an avid hiker and enjoyed her membership in the Greater Lansing  Hiking Club.

Bea was preceded in death by her husband, Loris Curtis, her step-daughter, Kay Curtis Williams, and seven brothers and sisters.  Shortly after her husband's death, in 1993, Bea moved to East Tawas, MI.

Bea is survived by many great0neices and nephews.  A grave site memorial will be held in the spring of 2010 at the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Lansing, MI.