Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Woodard, Sylvester L. 1962 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net July 29, 2011, 11:28 am Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 12 Sep 1962 Sylvester L. Woodard, 83, of 1117 Jordan Lake avenue, died at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday in Butterworth hospital, Grand Rapids. He was a patient 25 days and had been in ill health the past three years. Mr. Woodard was born February 18, 1879 at Ferris Center, the son of Sylvester S. and Julia Chapfield Woodard. He was married to Pearl Anderson March 22, 1902 and had lived in Ferris Center and in Ionia 15 years before moving to Lake Odessa 21 years ago. He had worked for a local dairy for a number of years and for five years was night watchman for the Village of Lake Odessa before retiring in 1950. Surviving are his wife; a sister, Mrs. Ben Gorsuch of Ferris Center; two brothers, Leslie Woodard of Crystal, and Elmer of Charlevoix. Prayer service will be held at Pickens funeral chapel in Lake Odessa Thursday at 10 a.m. Funeral service will be conducted at 2 o’clock at Ferris Center Church of Christ with burial at Ferris Center cemetery. The Rev. Howard Cowan will officiate. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/woodard15347nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb