Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Beard, Alice B. (Durkee) 1957 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net December 2, 2010, 11:34 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, 26 Dec 1957 Mrs. Alice V. Beard, 67, route two, died at 5:10 p.m. Christmas Day at Traverse City. She was born May 28, 1890 in Odessa township, daughter of Lafayette and Lottie (Chapman) Durkee. She was married to Ernest Beard, July 24, 1911 at Ionia and they spent their entire married life in Odessa township. She was a lifelong member of the Methodist church. Mrs. Beard was a member of the church WSCS and Recreation club. Besides her husband, Ernest, those surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Duward (Helen) Strong and Mrs. Royce (Mary) Brooke of Lake Odessa; five sons, Herbert and Walter of Lansing, Edgar and Carl of Grand Ledge, and Robert of Lake Odessa; two sisters, Mrs. Lois Leigh, Lansing, and Mrs. Mildred Bouck of Grand Ledge; two brothers, the Rev. Raymond Durkee of Williamston and Clarence of Lake Odessa; 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The body is at the Pickens funeral chapel where service will be conducted Saturday at 1:30 p.m. by the Rev. Paul Robinson. Burial will be in Lakeside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/beard9952nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb