John Arthur WARD

WARD, EHLERT, DAMRAN, OSWALD, BLACK, SEILER, LARSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/25/2011 at 22:33:31

17 April 1927 -- 7 May 1989

Funeral service for John A. Ward, 62, of Swea City, was held in the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Swea City at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 10, 1989. Burial was made in the church cemetery, in Swea City. John Arthur Ward was born near Wesley, Iowa in Kossuth County on April 17, 1927. He graduated from Corwith High School in 1946 and attended Iowa State University at Ames where he earned his dfairy Herd Improvement Association certification. John was married to Rosa F. Ehlert at Alden, Iowa on October 1, 1950. The couple farmed near Alden where John also worked for the Dairy Herd Improvement Association. In 1957, he quit farming and began to work full time for the DHIA, first in the state of Virginia, then in Illinois. The Wards moved to Swea City in 1964. John became area supervisor with the DHIA and retired in 1987. He died Sunday, May 7, 1989 in the University Hospitals at Iowa City. Mr. Ward is survived by his wife, Rosa; a son, Jimmy Ward, who is stationed with the navy in Hawaii and a daughter, Marie, Mrs. Edward Damran, Alliance, NE. Also surviving are his mother, Rosa Ward of Humboldt; a brother, Walt Ward Jr., Fort Worth, Texas; and four sisters, June, Mrs. Gordon Oswald, Brownsdale, Minn; Mary, Mrs. Gene Black, Norman, Oklahoma; Laura, Mrs. John Seiler, Humboldt and Sylvie, Mrs. Leonard Larson of Badger. His father, Walter J. Ward is deceased.

The Corwith Herald -- Corwith, Iowa
17 May 1989