Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ward, Grover C. 1979
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, March 19, 1979

Grover C. Ward of 1233 Jordan Road, died Friday afternoon at Provincial House 
in Hastings where he had been a patient since June 1977.  He was born February 
6, 1890 in Two Rivers, the son of Henry and Clara Hager Ward.  He attended 
school in Two Rivers and on May 10, 1912, he married Lailah Robedeaux in 
Beriton.

Ward owned and operated a general department store in Beriton several years 
before moving to Clarksville in 1920 where he owned and operated a grocery 
store for two years.  In 1922 he  moved to Rockford where he operated a 
similar type of store.  In 1924 he moved to Alma where he was bookkeeper and 
field manager for Libby, McNeil, Libby Company for 15 years.  He moved to Lake 
Odessa in 1939 where he operated a service station and was later employed by 
Western Auto, retiring in 1965.  He was a member of Clarksville Masonic Lodge 
451.

Survivors include wife, Lailah; two daughters, Mrs. Melvin (Francis) Williams 
and Mrs. Marguerite Robbins, both of Lake Odessa; two brothers, Charles and 
Martin Ward, both of New Hudson; two grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren.

Funeral services were today at 1:30 p.m. at Pickens-Koops Funeral Chapel of 
Lake Odessa under the auspices of the Clarksville Masonic Lodge.  Burial was 
in Lakeside Cemetery.




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