Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Howard, Ervin July 20, 1956
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Lake Odessa Wave - July 26, 1956
          ERVIN HOWARD DIED SUNDAY
   Ervin Howard 63, of 6518 Orchid Avenue, Dearborn, passed away Sunday evening in
Detroit after a long 
illness.
   A native of Toledo, Ohio, he spent his early life in Lake Odessa and graduated
with the class of 1912 of the 
local-high school.  He graduated from the University of Michigan with Bachelor of
Arts and Master of Arts 
degrees and taught in the public schools of Michigan for 36 years. with 28 years in
the Dearborn school 
retiring three years ago.  Ervie was the coach in the local school for two years and
the local school athletics 
held the record in 1919-20 with nine wins and no losses in football compiling 425 to
their opponate none, nine 
wins and two losses in basketball and seventeen wins and one loss in baseball.  An
Ervie Howard Athlete Club 
was formed 25 years ago and a banquet was held here the latter part of May each year
with Ervie present 
except for two years.  A war veteran, he served overseas during World War I, member
of the American Legion 
and Veterans of Foreign Wars No. 1484 and was a past commander of the V.F.W.
   Ervie was a member of the Mt. Olivet Methodist Church, National Education and
Michigan Education 
Associations, Phi Delta Kappa Honorary Fraternity, Dearborn Rotary Club, Olive
Branch Lodge No. 542, F& AM 
(life member) and Dearborn Association of School Administrators.
   Surviving are his wife the former Bernice Reed of Dearborn; one son Ervin Earl
Howard; one daughter, Mrs. 
Norene Tanner and one grandson Robert E. Howard all of Detroit.
   Funeral services were held Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. at the McFarland, Funeral
Home at 5401 Schafer Rd., 
Dearborn and Thursday at 1:30 p.m. (today) at the Pickens Funeral Chapel .  Burial
in Lakeside Cemetery.  
Rev. Edgar M. Wahlberg officiated.

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