Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ward, Hiram W. September 17, 1949
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Ingham County News (Pg. 3) Sept. 22, 1949

                     Driver Is Killed On M-36 Curve
Hiram W. Ward, 56, was fatally injured at three o'clock Saturday afternoon when 
his car overturned on M-36, at the curve in front of the Lester Hodgson farm. 
He was taken to the Mason General hospital but lived only about 10 minutes 
after being admitted. His skull was fractured, probably when he was thrown from 
the car to the pavement. 

Ward lived in Dansville. He was driving toward Mason. The curve is at the foot 
of a long hill. As Ward's car reached the curve it skidded off the pavement, at 
the north side. The driver apparently lost control. Tracks show that the car 
continued on, skidding west down the road for several rods. Then the car rolled 
over, throwing the driver to the blacktop. 

Born on an Ionia county farm, July 5, 1891, Ward was one of a family of five 
born to William and Anna Ward. On August 19, 1915, he married Goldie White of 
Ionia. They had six children, four of whom survive. 

Mr. and Mrs. Ward lived in Ionia until 1930 when they came to Mason. Later the 
family moved to Ingham township and three years ago to the village of 
Dansville. Ward was employed at the Atlas Drop Forge in Lansing. Besides the 
widow he is survived by the four children, James of Mason, Mrs. Loraine Simison 
of Dansville, Mrs. Dorothy Hinkle of Duck lake, and William of Dansville:; two 
sisters, Mrs. Mary Gustafson of Ionia and Mrs. Bernice Erdman of Milwaukee and 
Mrs. Bernice Erdman of Milwaukee, and five grandchildren. 

Funeral services were held at the Vogt funeral home in Dansville Tuesday 
afternoon. Rev. E.H. Kincaid of the Dansville Free Methodist church officiated, 
with burial in Easton cemetery, Ionia county.

Additional Comments:
Funeral: Tuesday 20, September 1949
Easton cemetery #358

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