Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Pickard, Clinton Harrison 1913
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Unidentified Publication, 1913

Clinton Harrison Pickard was born in St. Louis, Mich., Jan. 4, 1888, and in 1889
he was taken with his parents to Merrill, Mich., where he resided until his
fourteenth year, when he came to Ionia.  After two years he went to Toledo, O.,
where he remained five years, during which time he learned the trade of a reed
worker.  He then returned to Ionia, where for the past year he was employed as
assistant foreman of a department in the Hayes-Ionia Auto Body Factory.

On April 22, 1911, he was united in marriage to Miss Ona Genson, of this city,
and to this very happy union were born two children, Zotta May, who died when
three months of age, and Lela Rosamond, now nine months old.

On Saturday night, October 25, while out auto riding with two companions, the
shocking accident occurred whereby, without a moment’s warning, his life was
suddenly brought to an untimely close.  It is a sad coincidence that Mr. Pickard
is the last of three brothers, all of whom met violent deaths.

There remain to bear the blow of their great bereavement, his loving wife and
babe, his father and mother, Mr. L. and Mrs. Hattie Pickard, of Belding; three
sisters, Mrs. H.D. Williams, of Ionia; Mrs. Will Miner, of Jackson; Miss
Beatrice Pickard, of Belding; and two nephews, Gerald Pickard, of Belding, and
Donald H. Williams, of Ionia.

Many staunch friends bear testimony to the high moral and manly character of the
departed, and the entire community is in intensest sympathy with the stricken
widow and family.  Mr. Pickard was a member of the local lodge of Odd Fellows.

The funeral services included a brief prayer at the late home of the deceased on
south Dexter St., at 11:30 and an address by Rev. Charles Wesley Lyman in the
Evangelical church, at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 29.  Appropriate music was
furnished by Mrs. Mildred Everett and Miss Edna Sheil, Mr. Graydon Everett,
organist.  The bearers, three Oddfellows and three shopmates, were. Geo.
Humphrey, Harry Morgan, Louis Taffel, Lloyd Wiers, Chas. Markel and Chas. Barrett.

Interment in Oak Hill cemetery, in charge of, and according to the ritual of the
I.O.O.F.


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