Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cribbs, Willard C. December 16, 1957
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, December 17, 1957
Willard C. Cribbs, 73, of 331 Pearl Street, well known throughout the state 
for his work in agriculture and former Ionia county agricultural agent, died 
Sunday at 2 p.m. at the University hospital, Ann Arbor.  He had been in poor 
health for several years and had spent the past several winters in the South.  
He was admitted to the University hospital September 24.

Cribbs began extension work for Michigan State college in 1918 in Bellaire, 
Antrim county.  In 1920 he went to east Lansing and helped organize 
agricultural cooperative marketing associations throughout the state.  He 
worked a total of 26 years for the college.  Later he was district county 
agent for eight north central counties including Ionia County, and later 
became agricultural agent for Ionia County.  He roomed here for a time before 
moving his family here in 1936.  He retired in 1943.  Cribbs was district 
agriculture agent from 1928 to 1936 and Ionia county agriculture agent from 
1937 to 1943. 

He was born April 26, 1878 in Bainbridge Center, the son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Eugene Cribbs.  He attended Benton Harbor college and Parsons Business college 
in Chicago.  In 1902 he was married in Penn Yan to Ida Randall.  They lived in 
Chicago for two years after their marriage and then went to Watervliet where 
they owned a farm.  Cribbs was an ardent sportsman and fisherman and often 
traveled out of state to avail himself of good hunting.  He was a life member 
of the Ionia County fishing and Hunting club.  He attended the Ionia Methodist 
church but was a member of the People’s church in East Lansing.  He was also a 
member of the Ionia Garden Club.

Surviving him are the widow; two sons, Leland R. of Laingsburg and W. Corydon 
of Denver, Colorado; five grandchildren; and a brother, Dr. E. E. Cribbs, of 
Three Rivers.  A son, Alan, preceded him in death.  Services will be held 
Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Stone-Kauffman funeral home.  Dr. Howard A. 
Smith, pastor of the First Methodist church, will officiate.  


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