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Note: OBITUARY:The Late Benjamin Franklin WARD Corfu - Benjamin F. WARD, 92, of National City, California, a native of this vicinity, who died Saturday (Aug 23, 1958) had been confined to a hospital for three weeks.
Mr WARD lived in Corfu and later on Fargo Road, where he sold his farm in 1944 to Martin and Alvina Peterson. He went to California to make his home. His first wife, Emma Lawrence, died about 25 years ago (02 Feb 1934).
Surviving Mr. WARD are his wife, Jane WARD, whom he married in Calfornia; two sons, Clarence of Lancaster and Howard WARD of Cowlesville; two daughters, Mrs Glades WALDRON of Hempstead, Long Island, and Mrs Dorothy BERGMANN of Greenport, Long Island; seven grandchildren and several great-grand children and nieces and
nephews, including Frank E. PRINCE and Mrs Florence ANAWALD, both of Corfu.
Funeral services and burial took place in San Diago, Calif., in Greenwood Memorial Cemetery Tuesday.
BURIAL PLACE: Geeenwood Memorial Cemetery , San Diego, California but there is a headstone with his name, dates of birth and death on it with Emma Abigail LAWRENCE in Evergreen Hill Cemetery, Corfu, Genesee County, New York. This location has been verified (to me) by Greenwood Memorial Cemetery and Mr. Charles HERMAN of the C. B. Beach Mortuary, Main St, Corfu, Genesee County, New York.
The family lived on various farms in the vinicity of Corfu, New York among them being the farm now a part of the Haskell farm just west of the Corfu Village limits on the north side of Genesee Road. They removed to California, where they lived for two years and one half. Returning to New York State, they lived for a short time on the large dairy farm just south of Batavia on the Alexander Road, then bought the Macy farm west of the county line in Alden. The house burning down. they sold the farm and bought a small place north of Fargo, town of Darien on the west side of the road and north of the creek. There they engaged in the production of eggs. Emma Abigail (Lawrence) Ward dying there, Benjamin Franklin Ward eventually remarried and removed to California.
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