Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Beard, John Sr. 1961 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net June 15, 2011, 6:20 pm The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, July 13, 1961 Funeral service will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Neller funeral home in Portland for John I. Beard, Sr., 64, who died early Wednesday morning at his home on Knox road, route three, Portland. He is survived by his wife, Tracy; three sons, John Beard, Jr., and Donald of Portland, and LeWain of San Diego, Calif.; one stepson, George Yonker of Lewiston, Maine; 14 grandchildren; two brothers, Charles of Portland and Robert of Lyons; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Morton of San Francisco, Calif., and Mrs. Clare Howard of Portland. Rev. Robert Treat will officiate and burial will be at Portland cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/beard13247nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb