Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sykes, Barbara (Hanaford) November 23, 2010
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Ionia Sentinel Standard-Sat.November 27, 2010

                        Barbara Hanaford Sykes

Barbara Hanaford Sykers, 77, of Ionia, died on Nov. 23, 2010. She was born Jan 
26,1933, in Canton, China, the daughter of Glenn Ernest and Lucille Barnard 
Hanaford. Her early years were spent in China and in the Philippines where her 
father worked for Standard Oil Company. Her family returned to the United States 
in 1939, and settled in Mariemont,Ohio.

Mrs.Sykes graduated from Mariemont High School in 1950. She became a registered 
nurse in 1954, graduating from Evanston Hospital School of Nursing that was 
affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston,Ill. She received a 
Bachelor's of Science in Nursing in 1956 and a Master's of Arts in Nursing 
Education in 1959 from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City.

Mrs.Sykes worked as an instructor in nursing at Columbia University and at 
Teachers College preparing instructors for community college nursing programs. 
She served as the director of the Health Education program for Montcalm 
Community College in the early 1970s and then ended her career as a nurse for 
the State of Michigan.

Mrs.Sykes was very active in community organizations including,Jefferson School 
Parent teachers Guild, Ionia Girl Scouts, Ionia Boy Scouts, Meals on Wheels, 
Ionia Literacy Council and the American Cancer Society. She was particularly 
proud of her service on the Ionia County Memorial Hospital board of trustees 
from 1975-1985, during which she served three years as president.

A source of pride was her family's sponsoring of a Vietnamese family in 1979, 
displace by the communist upon the fall of South Vietnam. She remained in 
contact with the family for the remainder of her life.

She was a member of the Ionia County Historical Society the Westminister 
Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor and attended the First United Methodist Church 
in ionia.

Mrs.Sykes is survived by her husband, Dr.Robert S.Sykes, Sr.; two sons, Hon. 
Robert Scott (Laurie) Sykes Jr., of Ionia and William Ernest (Janelle) Sykes of 
San Antonio, Texas; two daughters, Martha Lucille (Scott) Kloosterman of Saline, 
Michigan and Molly Jane (Bruce) Crankshaw of Ann Arbor; eight grandchildren, 
Emily and Sarah Sykes, Katherine and John Klooseterman, David and Lilly 
Crankshaw and Robert Scott III and Calvin Sykes; and brother Dr. William Barnard 
Hanaford of Park Ridge,Ill. She was preceded in death by her parents and 
grandson, William Robert Sykes.

A memorial service will be held at the First United Methodist Church of Ionia on 
Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, at 11 a.m. with Pastor Larry Brown officiating. The 
family will received friends a the Schrauben-Lehman Funeral Home on Rich Street 
in Ionia from 1 until 4 p.m. on Sunday,Nov. 28, 2010.

Mrs.Sykes had asked that memorial contributions be made to the Ionia Public 
Schools Scholarship Fund.



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