Greta Lavonne Somers

SOMERS, GRETA LAVONNE – Of Flint, age 91, just 4 days short of her 92 birthday, died Friday, July 28, 2023 at her residence.

Memorial service will be held 2:30pm Sunday, September 10, 2023 at the Swartz Funeral Home, 1225 West Hill Road, Flint.

Visitation 1pm Sunday until the time of the service at the funeral home.

Mrs. Somers was born in Flint, Michigan on August 1, 1931, the daughter of the late Theodore and Vivian (Fortune) Berg.

She married Richard Somers on July 22, 1950 in Angola, Indiana and he preceded her in death. 

She was a member of the Sweet Adeline’s for over 60 years. She loved her Sweet Adeline’s Sisters in Flint and Davison. She arranged music, wrote songs and directed chorus.

Greta was a great cook; she made the best chocolate chip cookies ever!
She cared for her husband and was a very loving and thoughtful mother too. She was funny, insightful, creative and second mother to a lot of kids.

Surviving are children, Richard Somers Jr. and companion Sandy Binder, David Somers, Susan and husband Greg Seitz and James Somers;

daughter-in-law, Diane McMillian;

2 grandchildren, Damond and Vanessa;

great-grandchildren, Cierra and Hailey;

siblings, James Hackney and Ethel Lynne;

many special nieces, nephews and cousins; the Hogarth gang and special friends, Beth, Eileen, Pat and Rosemary.
 
She will be greatly missed by her children.

She was also preceded in death by her sister, Joan McCormick and sister-in-law, Greta.