Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ward, Percy 1961
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, September 27, 1961


A 66-year-old Morrison lake area farmer was killed at approximately 1:20 
Tuesday afternoon when his .410 shotgun accidentally discharged while he was 
climbing a ladder.  Investigating officer, William Tompkins of the Ionia state 
police post said Percy Ward, whose farm is the first one south of the 
intersection of Portland and Jackson roads, had told his wife, Bessie, he was 
going out to shoot a stray tom cat which had been bothering some kittens at 
the farm.

Mrs. Ward said she heard a shot at about 1:20 and thought her husband had shot 
at the cat.  A short while later, Mrs. Ward said, she went out to the barn and 
found her husband lying prostrate near the barn door.  She then called a 
Saranac physician who said Ward was dead when he arrived.

Coroner Neil Phelps said Ward died of wounds as the result of an accidental 
shooting.  Trooper Tompkins said Ward’s body was found near the barn door and 
the Jackson road farmer had apparently been in the basement and started to 
climb the ladder with the cocked shotgun in his hand.  Tompkins said as Ward 
reached the top of the ladder the gun fired and he fell forward on the barn 
floor while the shotgun dropped to the bottom of the latter.

The body was taken to the Morris funeral home in Saranac.

Percy R. Ward, 65, died Tuesday at his home in Boston township.  He was born 
in Richmond March 12, 1896.  

Surviving are his wife, Bessie of route two, Saranac; two daughters, Mrs. 
George Boyko of East Lansing, and Mrs. William Rav Cox of Saginaw; a son, 
Farrand Ward of Linden, and a sister, Mrs. Frank Fuerstenau of Richmond.

Service will be conducted at Morris funeral home Friday at 2:30 p.m. by the 
Rev. Howard E. Bull.


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