Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ward, Elfie July 26, 1936 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net June 28, 2010, 6:56 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, July 27, 1936 Mrs. Elfie Ward, 64, died Sunday evening July 26 at her home 937 West Main street after a lingering illness of nineteen years. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Peavey, born in Indiana May 13, 1872. December 24, 1889 she was married at Stanwood to Thompson Ward. She has lived for the past seventeen years coming here from Morley. Surviving are her husband, Thompson, of Ionia, her father John Peavey of Altona; one son, Ray of Pontiac, three daughters, Mrs. Wayne Crame of Stanwood, Mrs. Forest Hackett of Ionia, and Mrs. Erith Ward of Ionia; two brothers, Ellis Peavey of Lakeview and Calvin Peavy of Altona; two sisters, Mrs. Edith Alderson of Pontiac, and Mrs. Effie Stout of Morley, and thirteen grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon July 29 with a prayer service at the Boynton funeral chapel at 1 o’clock and at 3:30 o’clock for the Higbee church in Montcalm county. Interment will be at Higbee cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/ward6172nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb