Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ward, William S. 1931
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, November 29, 1931

William S. Ward, 63, was found dead Sunday by his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. 
and Mrs. Harvey Gustafson, when they went to the home to spend the day with 
him.  Mr. Ward had returned Saturday night from deer hunting, where he had met 
with some reverses to the pleasure.   A lamp had been filled after dark with 
gasoline instead of kerosene and this exploded Friday evening burning the 
equipment, the deer carcass, much of his clothing and $50 in currency.  At the 
time Mr. Ward complained of having inhaled an excessive amount of gas from the 
explosion and it is thought that this may have had something to do with his 
unexpected death.

When Mr. Ward went north hunting, Mrs. Ward went to Milwaukee, Wis., to visit 
a daughter, Mrs. Bernice Garner, and did not know of her husband’s untimely 
arrival home, made so by the accident in the camp.

He was born in Easton township and had always lived in the county with the 
exception of spending several summers in the interests of the conservation 
department about the state working in the fish hatcheries, but maintaining his 
home near Orleans.

Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. R. E. Karban Wednesday afternoon at 
2 o’clock at the home in Orleans township.  Burial will be in Easton cemetery.

He leaves no brothers or sisters, all having preceded him in death., but has 
an aged mother living in Chicago.  The widow and these children survive: Hiram 
Ward, of Mason, Herbert Ward of Ionia; Mrs. Gustafson, of Ionia; Mrs. Elvira 
Evans, of Grand Rapids; and Mrs. Bernice Garner of Milwaukee, Wis.

Mr. Ward was a gold star father, having lost a son, James, in the World War.


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