Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Hazel M. Ward

Nov. 9, 1905 - Jan. 25, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 1/26/1994

WALKERTON - Hazel M. (Schultz) Ward, 88, of 1004 Ohio St., died at 12:48 p.m. Tuesday in Miller's Merry Manor, Plymouth, after an illness. Mrs. Ward was born Nov. 9, 1905, in Chicago, and lived in Walkerton since 1943, coming from Chicago.

 

On Dec. 7, 1927, in Chicago, as Hazel M. Brandon, she married Albert William Schultz. He died Oct. 18, 1976. She is survived by her second husband, Junior Ward of Walkerton; a son, William A. Schultz of Covington, Tenn.; a stepson, Tim of Koontz Lake; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a sister, Ruth Drews of Sarasota, Fla. A daughter, Shirley Holcomb, died in 1973. She was a member of Walkerton First Baptist Church, American Legion Post 189 Ladies Auxiliary, and Lincoln Township Home Demonstration Club.

 

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Nusbaum-Elkin Funeral Home. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and two hours before services on Friday in the funeral home.