Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lombard, Harry December 5, 1939
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, December 7, 1939
Harry Lombard, 77, prominent Ionia business man since 1916, died at his home, 
211 East Washington street, shortly after three o’clock Tuesday afternoon, 
December 5.  Funeral services will be from the Boynton Funeral Chapel, at 2:30 
Friday afternoon.  Rev. Frederick G. Dunbar, of the Methodist church will 
officiate at the funeral which will be under Masonic auspices at the chapel 
and at the interment in Orleans cemetery.

In the death of Harry Lombard, Ionia loses a citizen of whom she was justly 
proud.  He was a staunch friend, a loyal citizen and a fine gentleman.  Mr. 
Lombard’s death followed a brief illness of pneumonia.  He contracted a severe 
cold about a week ago, after returning from an O.E.S. officers party at the 
Charles Reasoner home in Palo, Tuesday evening.  Pneumonia developed and 
despite all efforts of attending physicians his strength failed rapidly and 
death came Tuesday, as noted above. 

Mr. Lombard was born April 18, 1862 near Addison, Michigan where he lived 
until his graduation from the village school.  He then joined his father on 
the home farm and remained there until about 1914.  Following the death of his 
father and while engaged in the operation of the farm in Somerset township, 
Hillsdale county, he was elected supervisor and later became treasurer of the 
township, a position in which he served for six years, or until he moved to 
Hillsdale in 1914.

In 1916 Mr. Lombard came to Ionia from Hillsdale and purchased the Clyde Adams 
Coal company which later became the Lombard Coal company and is now operated 
by his son, Darr Lombard, since his retirement from business about two years 
ago.  Prominent in civic and fraternal interest, Mr. Lombard served as 
alderman from the fourth ward for about eight years and was a member of the 
state tax allocation commission for the past five years.  In politics he was a 
Democrat and was a loyal party worker whenever the need arose.  His fraternal 
affiliations included membership in the Masonic lodge, O.E.S., White Shrine, 
Gleaners and Maccabees.

In 1886 Mr. Lombard was united in married with Miss Katie Jenkins, at Tipton, 
Michigan.  Mrs. Lombard with their four sons, Darr of Ionia; Charles F. of 
Minneapolis, Minn., Nile T. of Detroit and Capt. S. C. of Maxwell Field, 
Montgomery, Alabama, and one sister, Mrs. J. C. Croffot, of Addison, Michigan, 
survive him.  Capt. Lombard, with whom Mr. and Mrs. Lombard were planning to 
spend the winter, flew to Grand Rapids, reaching there Tuesday shortly after 
his father’s death.  Capt. Lombard came in a Northrup plane, piloted by Lieut. 
Commander James L. Kane of the U.S. Navy and had to make a forced landing near 
the Rindgemoor Country club, Grand Rapids.


Additional Comments:
Transcriber’s Note:  The obituary states burial was in the Orleans cemetery 
which is located in Orleans Township. However, cemetery transcription records 
on the Ionia County MiGenWeb site indicate burial was in the Greenop (Hurd) 
Cemetery which is also located in Orleans Township.  

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