Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sibley, Alexander W. May 27, 2010
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Ionia Sentinel Standard - Friday June 4, 2010

                         Alexander W. Sibley

Alexander W. Sibley, 94, of Ionia, passed away on Thursday, May 27, 2010. He was 
born on Aug. 30, 1915, in Ionia the son of Alexander Bell and Frances (Babcock) 
Sibley.

Alexander graduated from Ionia high School in 1933 and also from Western 
Michigan university in 1937. In 1941 he enlisted in the United States Army and 
was honorably discharged as a Major in 1945 at the end of World War II.

He married Ellen Gould, an Army nurse in 1942 at Camp Callen, Calif., and she 
preceded him in death in 2001. They acquired the family farm and moved back to 
Ionia in 1948 from Kalamazoo where Alexandr worked for Upjohn Corporation. He 
then worked for Fuller Furniture and retired from Mitchell Bentley in 1980 as an 
accountant. He joined the National Guard in ionia while simultaneously running 
the family farm.

In 1956 he became the Supervisor for Easton township and continued on for 39 
years.he served on the Ionia County memorial Hospital Board, was the Ionia 
County Zoning Commission Chairman, was a member of theKiwanis Club, the farm 
Bureau, Ionia Hunting and fishing Club, Ionia Historical society, and 
theI.H.S.Alumni Association. He was a lifelong Democrat who worked with the 
Ionia County Board of Supervisors and others to get the Stare of Michigan to 
take over the county poor farm in Berlin Township to establish the Ionia State 
recreation Area.

Surviving are his four children, Kathleen Akers of Phoenix, Ariz., Andy Sibley 
of Ionia, Martha Jajuga of Mt.Pleasant, and Susan Chase of Denver, Colo.; six 
grandchildren; and two great grandchildren.

Private Family Services will be held. For those desiring, memorial contributions 
may be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis Foundation or to the Ionia Area 
Hospice in memory of Mr.Alexander W. Sibley Arrangements are entrusted to the 
Schrauben-Lehman Funeral Home, Ionia. Online condolences may be made at 
www.schraubenlehman.com

Additional Comments:
Army Major WWII 

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