Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, William E. 1952 ************************************************ 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 mransom311@gmail.com July 24, 2014, 3:38 pm The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, March 17, 1952 William E. Gardner, former Lake Odessa deputy sheriff, died Saturday at Bradenton, Florida, where he had gone to spend the winter. A Spanish-American war veteran, Gardner first moved to Lake Odessa with his family in the early 1920’s as manager of the A&P store. He was deputy sheriff for 15 years from September 23, 1927 until 1942, serving under Sheriffs William Franch, Herbert Ross and Leslie Murphy. He was a life member of the Lake Odessa Masonic lodge. Surviving him are the wife, Ruby, and a son, Raymond of Long Beach, Calif. The body is to be returned to Lake Odessa Wednesday. Funeral services are to be conducted Friday at 1 p.m. from the Pickens funeral home with burial in St. John’s cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/g/gardner26109nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb