Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lepard, Bert D. June 16, 1964 ************************************************ 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: Patricia Currigan currigan1932@comcast.net June 15, 2022, 12:12 pm Lake Odessa Wave - Thursday June 18, 1964 Retired Farmer Passes Away Tuesday Bert D. Lepard, 83, retired farmer, passed away Tuesday morning at the McDowell Nursing Home at Hasting's after a long illness. He had been a patient there since last November but had been hospitalized several times. A native of Odessa township, he was a lifelong resident of the local area moving to his home in the village about ten years ago. His wife, the former Dessie Bachelder, passed away in May 1954 after sixty-years of married life. Mr. Lepard was a member of the Progressive Brethren church, now known as the Grace Brethren church. Surviving are a daughter Mrs. Racie Haller and a son Forrest both of rural Lake Odessa; 7 grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Thursday (today) at 1:30 at the Pickens Funeral Chapel with burial in Lakeside Cemetery. Rev. Doriene Speas of Hastings officiated. Additional Comments: Lakeside Cem.#6-724-1 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/l/lepard43458nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb