Note: He didn't finish high school and joined the army a week after turning 18. His occupation at the time of enlistment was listed was "clerk". World War I ended within a year of his enlistment. Not particulary liking the name Herbert, he always went by "Ward" or "H. Ward", or "H.W". He operated oil service stations in Diagonal, Iowa in the 1930s and early 1940s. Daughters Pat and Mary were born there during this time. He was a salesman for the Montgomery Ward and Firestone Tire Companies in several small towns in Iowa and Nebraska in the 1940s. One of the towns was Falls City, Nebraska where Dan was born. He and Myrtle opened the Adams Paint & Wallpaper Shop in the 1950s. It was first located on West Thomas then on Sheridan Avenue (Main Street) in Shenandoah. He performed painting and wallpapering during the initial years the shop was open. He was a traveling salesman for the Atlas Wallpaper Mills of Coal City, Illinois during the late 1950s and 1960s. He was typically on the road from Monday through Friday each week while Myrtle operated the shop in Shenandoah. His last residence in Shenandoah was 509 West Valley. The residence during the majority of the time the children were growing up was 902 7th Avenue in Shenandoah. He suffered from adult-onset diabetes and had to take insulin daily. He had cataracts removed in his fifties and always had to wear thick glasses after that. He was listed in Who's Who in the Midwest in the early-mid 1950s. He died of complications from prostate cancer. He had been in poor health for several years and had suffered at least one stroke. He spent his final 6 months in the Veterans Hospital in Grand Island, Nebraska, the same town his daughter Mary and her family lived. Myrtle was by his side every day to the end, staying in a rented house trailer nearby.
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