Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sherwood, Blance (Smith) 1957 ************************************************ 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: Pat Blood Pat.blood@gmail.com April 1, 2012, 1:24 pm Ionia County News – Thursday, 11 April 1957 Mrs. Blance Hazzard Sherwood, 91, died Monday morning at the Ionia Rest Home, following several years of illness. Born October 28, 1865 in Orange Township, Ionia County, she was a daughter of Giles and Catherine Smith and was married to Charles Hazzard in 1887. He died in 1897 in Berlin Township and in 1920 she was married to Frank Sherwood. They moved to 824 West Lincoln Avenue, Ionia, where Mr. Sherwood died in November of 1924. Mrs. Sherwood was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Berlin, and after moving to Ionia she joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in which she was active until her health failed. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Harriet McDonald and Mrs. Lois Sherwood of Ionia, and two sons, Benjamin Hazzard of Lake Odessa and Charles Hazzard of Toledo, Ohio; 13 grandchildren; 32 great- grandchildren; three step-children, Ernest Sherwood of Berlin, Mrs. Helen Tomlinson of Lansing and Mrs. Mary Kress of Battle Creek. Funeral services will be conducted (today) Thursday afternoon, at 1:30 at the Myers Funeral Home and interment will be in Balcom Cemetery. The Rev. Heath Goodwin will officiate. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/sherwood17612nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb