Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Beckhold (Hazzard), Zella M. 1995
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The Lakewood News, January 1995

Zella M. Hazzard Beckhold, 101, of Lake Odessa, passed away on Wednesday, 
January 25, 1995 at TenderCare Nursing Home in Hastings.  She was born on 
September 30, 1893 in Sebewa, the daughter of Oscar and Mary (Baldwin) 
Sexstone.

She graduated from Portland High School and attended Ferris Institute. She 
married Benjamin Hazzard on March 8, 1916 in Sebewa.  He preceded her in death 
in November 1962.  She married Frank Beckhold on December 8, 1966 in Lake 
Odessa.  He preceded her in death in October 1994.

Mrs. Beckhold attended the Lake Odessa Congregational Church and was a Blue 
Star Mother.

She was also preceded in death by one son, Maxwell Hazzard on July 28, 1981; 
one daughter, Maxine Torrey on December 26, 1994; one grandson, Richard Scott; 
two sisters, Maude Oles and Mabel Valentine; 2 brothers, Clare and Vern 
Sexstone.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Norman (Marguerite) Short of Kalamazoo and 
Mrs. LeRue (Betty) McMillen of Lake Odessa; 8 grandchildren; 15 great 
grandchildren; 5 great-great grandchildren; 2 step grandchildren; 4 step great 
grandchildren; 1 daughter-in-law, Norma Hazzard of Wyoming; 1 son-in-law, 
Cecil Torrey of Lake Odessa.

Funeral services were held on Friday at Koops Funeral Chapel in Lake Odessa 
with Reverend Emmett Kadwell officiating.  Burial was in Lakeside Cemetery.


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