Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Harwood, Edgar C. 1984 ************************************************ 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 July 21, 2011, 11:40 am Ionia Sentinel Standard, 27 Mar 1984 Edgar C. Harwood, 68, of Ionia died early Monday morning at the Michigan Veterans Facility Hospital in Grand Rapids. He was born in Berlin Township on September 5, 1915 the son of Leavitt and Amy Bennett Harwood. He attended Benedict Rural School and also Ionia High School. He was a machine operator at the Ypsilanti-Reed Company, then he worked during the early part of WWII at Gibsons in Belding. He served in the Military Police Detachment in the U.S. Army during WWII. Upon returning, he worked at Joppes Dairy Co. for 20 years delivering milk, then he became self-employed for seven years before retiring in 1980. He married Ruth C. Woodard at the LeValley Methodist Parsonage on August 12, 1938. Surviving are his wife; three sons, Lynn of Richmond, Virginia, Keith of Ionia, and Bryan of Bunky, Louisiana; four daughters, Mrs. Alice Yenchar of Fenwick, Mrs. Jean White of Okemos, Mrs. Linda Davenport of Columbiaville, Mich., and Mrs. Helen Hall of Eaton Rapids; 16 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one brother, Paul Harwood of Ionia; two sisters, Mrs. Dorris Kuhtz of Ionia and Elsie Day of Lansing. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Leddick Funeral Home with Pastor David Davenport, son-in-law, of the Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church in Holly, Mich., officiating. Interment will be in the Balcomb Cemetery. Friends and relatives may visit the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. A memorial has been established for the Zion United Methodist Church in Ionia. Contributions may be left at the funeral home. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/h/harwood15034nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb