Obituary of Genevieve L. Lynch

Genevieve Lucille Prime Lynch was born September 12, 1918 in Unionville, Tuscola County, Michigan, and died on her 92nd birthday September 12, 2010 at Crestmont Home. The funeral service will take place, Wednesday, September 15, 2010, at the Miles Martin Funeral Home in Mt. Morris. The Rev. Dr. Jasper Pennington will officiate with burial to follow in Sunset Hills Cemetery. Family will receive friends at the Miles Martin Funeral Home on Tuesday from 2:00pm to 4:00pm and 6:00pm to 8:00pm, and on Wednesday from 10:00am until time of service at 11:00am. Memorial contributions may be made to the Unionville Moravian Church in Unionville or to Heartland Hospice. Envelopes are available at the funeral home. She was the daughter of George and Celia (Beatenhead) Prime. She was baptized in Unionville Moravian Church and graduated from Unionville High School. She was a descendant of Conrad and Anna Beatenhead who immigrated to Southern Ohio in the 1830Aaas from Hesse, Germany and George and Rebeka Peters Prime who immigrated from Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, England in 1870. Both families were long established in the Unionville area and were inter-related with a number of local families. Genevieve was much interested in her family history and compiled extensive information about them, keeping, like her mother and grandmother, lengthy scrapbooks about their lives and activities. In 1939 she married Richard John Lynch of Mt. Morris, Genesee County, Michigan, who died in 1983. They had two children: Carole Cecile Lynch Pennington and Richard George Lynch. Genevieve was an excellent seamstress making clothing and toys which were sold at benefits here in Michigan and Palmetto, Florida where she and her husband lived for many years. She bowled on a number of Mt. Morris teams earning awards for her excellence. Crossword puzzles were a life-long source of pleasure and one of the real sorrows of her life was when her poor eyesight made that no longer possible. However books for the blind contributed many hours of satisfaction for her in later life. She was seen as a perfect mother and mother-in-law and a loving grandmother and great-grandmother to her descendants. She is survived by her children, Carole and husband The Rev. Dr. Jasper Pennington, son Richard III and wife Myra Lynch; grandchildren, Amy Cecile Lynch Pennington Boyce and husband Todd Boyce, Thomas Alexander Lynch Pennington, John Russell Lynch and wife Lisa Lynch, Timothy Joseph Lynch and wife Mikelle Lynch, and Sarah Elizabeth Lynch Pennington; seven great-grandchildren, and one brother, Orville Prime, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. GenevieveAaas family would like to extend a special thank you to the Staff of Crestmont Health Care Facility in Fenton for the wonderful care she was given and to Heartland Hospice.