Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ward, Frank Eugene June 27, 1913
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Daily Sentinel - Saturday, June 28, 1913

                           FRANK E. WARD PASSES AWAY
        DEATH CAME LAST NIGHT AT 8:45 AT HIS HOME ON WASHINGTON STREET
                 Was Employed at Reformatory for Nineteen Years.
                         Had Been Sick For Five Weeks.

Frank E. Ward, a long time and well known resident of Ionia, died last night 
at his residence on East Washington street at a little before 9 o'clock 
after an illness of five weeks with paralysis. Mr. Ward was taken ill five 
weeks ago while looking at a tenant house of his and since that time has 
gradually failed. For the past week he has been unconscious most of the 
time.

Mr. Ward had been a resident of Ionia for many years, for the past 14 years 
a having been chief clerk at the reformatory a position which he took when 
Mr. Douglass took the deputy wardenship. For five years previous to that he 
was bookkeeper in the furniture department. Pervious to that he was with the 
Grand Trunk railroad for many years. He was always been prominent in local 
lodge circles being a member of the Royal Arcanum, The Maccabees of the 
World, the Foresters and the Elks, and also a Mason. He was a member of the 
finance committee of the Grand council Royal Arcanum at the time of his 
death.

Mr. Ward was 59 years of age at the time of his death. He leaves besides a 
widow two children, Will and Mabel. The son is somewhere in Dakota. Miss 
Mabel is here from Saginaw.

The time for the funeral has not yet been set, waiting word from the son, 
and an announcement will be made later.


Monday, June 30, 1913
The funeral for the late Frank E. Ward will be attended from the residence, 
East Washington street, on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Cyrus 
Mendehall will conduct the services and burial will be in Highland Park 
cemetery. Service at the grave will be conducted by the Elks. 

Additional Comments:
Age: 59
Funeral: Tuesday, 1 July 1913
Highland Park cemetery #4-138



b. 11 June 1854, MI
son of John Ward & Elizabeth (Putnam
marr. Dec. 19, 1872 to Ellen G. (Alderman)

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