Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Beardsley, James A. 1965
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Lake Odessa Wave, 12 Aug 1965

Rev. James Albert Beardsley, 80, of 34 McKinley Place, Grosse Pointe Farms
passed away Monday night at his home.  A native of Berlin township, Ionia
county, he was the son of James C. and Hannah Beardsley.

He married Ida M. Lundquist of Sunfield June 15, 1912 and entered the ministry
in the summer of 1930 and served as pastor at Fowlerville, Charlotte,
Huntington, Ind., Noblesville, Ind., Lake Odessa, St. Johns, South Haven,
Trinity and St. Marks churches in Detroit.  Rev. Beardsley retired at the age of
73 and his last pastorate was the Sharon church at Manchester.  They moved to
Lake Odessa where they lived until October of 1963.

Surviving are his wife Ida M., one daughter Mrs. Richard (Dorothy) Mitchell of
Grosse Pointe Farms; two sons, Paul E. of Rockford and Rev. James Beardsley of
Grand Forks, N. Dakota, six grandchildren, a sister Mrs. Clyde (Anna) Stambaugh
of Lodi, Calif.; and a brother, Rev. Vernon Beardsley of Lake Odessa.

Rev. Beardsley is reposing at the Pickens Funeral Chapel until Thursday
forenoon, then will be taken to the Evangelical United Brethren church where
funeral services will be held Thursday (today) at 2 p.m. with burial in the
Woodland Memorial cemetery.  Rev. Clyde Gibson officiating.


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