DOWNARD, Bruce: Died 1984

DOWNARD, SNIDER, MARCH, BAKER, MORRIS

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 12/23/2021 at 20:33:44

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Bruce Downard

Bruce Downard, who died in a nursing home in Fontana, Ca., on April 29, 1984, was born near Stockport on August 1, 1901. He was the only son of Joseph J. and Ingaba Morris Downard.

He attended the Stockport School. The family later moved to Fairfield. He worked out of Chicago for some time and was married to Cleara Baker of Indiana.

After accepting a position with the National Life Insurance Company, he and the family moved to California. His territory was there until he retired after 32 years of work, because of poor health.

He was preceded in death by one son, Bruce, Jr., and a sister, Margaret Downard.

He is survived by his wife, Cleara, a son, Harold Richard of San Bernardino, Ca., and two sisters, Mrs. J.C. Snider (Twylah) and Joann Downard March, both of California.

Funeral services were held on May 3, 1984 in Decatur, Ind. with interment in the Baker family cemetery. His body was accompanied to Indiana by his wife and son. Mr. Downard had been very ill in a nursing home for several years. The Mark S. Shaw arrangements.

He has many Downard and Morris cousins in southeast Iowa.

Source: "Scrapbook 1981 - 1985", Pg. 184,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA