Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Willard, Alonzo L. 1932
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From the Grand Rapids Soldier’s Home obituaries, Volume 3, Page 132

January 7, 1932

Death advanced another step in its onslaught upon rapidly shriveling ranks of 
William Borden’s post, G.A.R. last night when it removed Alonzo L. Willard, 
eighty four, last Civil war veteran living in Ionia.

Mr. Willard who had been in declining health the last seven years, died at the 
home of his daughter, Mrs. Tomas Rich.  Funeral services will be held Friday 
at two o’clock at the Boynton funeral home with interment in North Plains 
cemetery.  He leaves three other children, Professor Chester E. Willard of 
Northwestern University, Eldon Willard and Mrs. William Moore, of this city.

His death leaves only three members of the abandoned post, Captain E. E. 
Eyster of White Cloud, Fla., George Rector of Miami, Fla. and Lemuel Langley 
of the V.S.H. Grand Rapids.

Born on a farm in North Plains township, he spent his entire life in the 
community.  At the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the Twenty first Infantry 
at Flint.  Less than two weeks ago, he attended the unveiling of the monument 
erected to honor his captain Belknap of his regiment.



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