Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lombard, Katie 1951
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, September 1, 1951

Mrs. Katie Lombard, 82, widow of Harry Lombard of Ionia, died at the Marsh 
Nursing home at Manitou Beach, Lenawee county, Friday at 6:30 p.m. after being 
ill for six weeks.  She had been a patient there for 15 months.

She was born Aug. 24, 1868, daughter of Dr. A. K. and Anna Jenkins, in Moscow, 
Hillsdale county.  She married Harry Lombard Nov. 18, 1886, and they moved to 
Ionia in 1917 here he established the Lombard Coal company, predecessor of the 
Barker Coal company.  He owned the company until his death Dec. 5, 1939.  His 
son, Darr, who was associated in the business with him for many years operated 
the business until a few years before his death when he sold the business to 
Don Barker.  Darr died Dec. 4, 1950.

Mrs. Lombard was a member of the First Methodist church and was past matron of 
Queen Esther chapter, O.E.S.

Surviving are three sons, Charles of Minneapolis, Minn., Nile of Detroit and 
Col. Cecil Lombard of Wright Field, Dayton, O.; four grandchildren, 2nd Lt. 
Harry Lombard who graduated from West Point in June, 1951; and Cameron, Mrs. 
Robert Leonhard and Carol Lombard, all of Detroit; and two great-
grandchildren, Steven Lombard Johnson of Dallas, Texas, and Douglas Leonhard 
of Detroit.  Another grandson, Capt. John Lombard, of Ionia was killed during 
World War II in China.

Funeral services will be conducted at the Boynton funeral home Tuesday, Sept. 
4, at 2 p.m. with Dr. Howard A. Smith officiating.  Interment will be in 
Orleans cemetery.  Queen Esther chapter, O.E.S. will have charge of the 
committal services.


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