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Obituary- Ward, Iona

Iona Alice Ward
Iona Alice Ward, 81, a rural Fairdealing homemaker, died at 2:30 a.m. today in Ripley County Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient for six days. She had been sick since April 1984.

Born Jan. 31, 1904, in Dunklin County, she had lived most of her life in Ripley County. She was a member of Pilgrim’s Rest Church. On Sept. 26, 1920, she was married to Lloyd Ward in Butler County, and he died on July 19,1972.

Survivors include six sons, Lloyd Ward Jr. of Poplar Bluff, Paul E. Ward of Delia, Kan. Mitchell E. Ward of Overland, Dale Ward of Philmath, Ore., Carroll Ward of Salem, Lyndell Ward of Faridealing; five daughters, Maxine Clark of Van Buren, Betty Ederer of Doniphan, Faye Meyer of Fairdealing, Sue Rawls of Deer Park, Texas and Wanda Medling of Carlisle, Penn.; three sisters, Cynthia Vore of Tulsa, Okla., Mae Kribs of Campbell and Ruth Tessreau of Ozark; one half-sister, Inez McConnell of New Madrid; 34 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.

Services were at 2 p.m. Sunday in Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan, with the Rev. James Gore officiating.