Byron Lee Ward |
| Posted 2009-04-11 by Maurine |
| Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona January 17, 1996 Byron Lee Ward, of Sun City and longtime resident of Wickenburg, died Jan. 12 in Sun City. He was 84. Mr. Ward was born April 2, 1911 in Ozark, Ala., the youngest of seven children. He graduated from Dale County High School in Ozark in 1932. In 1938 Mr. Ward and his wife Edna moved to Wickenburg and opened a dry cleaning and laundry business, Ward's Cleaners and Laundry, on Frontier Street They operated the business until their retirement to Sun City in 1978. Before moving to Wickenburg, Mr. Ward worked as a shipfitter at the St. John's River Ship Building Company in Jacksonville, Fla., and later at the Bethlehem Steel Ship Yard in New York City. At the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was assigned to repair U.S. naval vessels during the war. After being discharged from the service in 1945 as a Petty Officer 1st Class, Mr. Ward returned to Wickenburg to resume the dry cleaning business where he and his wife operated the business for the next 33years. He was a member of the Willowbrook Methodist Church in Sun City, was a 33rd Degree Mason, and a member of the El Zariba Shrine Temple in Phoenix. He is survived by his wife Edna of Sun City, and son Byron Lawrence Ward, of Tempe. Funeral services will be Thursday, Jan. 18 at 1 p.m. at Sunland Lakeside Chapel, 15826 Del Webb Blvd., Sun City with interment in Sunland Memorial Park Sunland Mortuary and Cremation Center was in charge of all arrangements. |
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