The Rochester Sentinel 1970 - Fulton County Public Library

Peirce C. Ward
[Peirce] C. WARD, 84, R.R. 3, prominent Richland township farmer and former Chicago
business executive, died suddenly Thursday afternoon at his winter apartment home in Lighthouse
Point, Fla. He had been in ill health for three years, but had remained active until the last two
months.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward, who had a cottage at Lake Maxinkuckee, acquired four farms here
and they moved to their home on Ind. 110 in 1936. He retired from Chicago business activities
and devoted fulltime to managing the Indian Hill Farms.
He built up a large herd of blooded Angus cattle and held numerous stock sales at his
farm that attracted buyers from many states. He exhibited his prize animals at the International
and Indiana stock shows and won a number of high awards.
The Maxinkuckee cottage had been built by his grandfather and the Wards and children
spent most of their summers there. He often mentioned that six generations of the family had
lived in the cottage during vacation periods.
Mr. Ward was born in Lafayette, Nov. 3, 1885, the son of Fred and Elizabeth PEIRCE
WARD. He attended Purdue university and while a young man moved to Chicago. On Sept. 23,
1911, he was married to Edith AISHTON, Winnetka, Ill., and they resided there until they came to
Indian Hill.
Mr. Ward was a member of the Winnetka Congregational church and the Sigma Chi
fraternity. He maintained much interest in Culver Military Academy all during his life.
He was chairman of the first board of trustees of Woodlawn hospital after it was acquired
by Fulton county. He was a director of the Indiana Gas company, Indianapolis; Central Telephone
company, Lincoln, Neb.; Lacrosse Telephone company, Lacrosse, Wis.; and the Southern
Telephone company, Tallahassee, Fla. He recently retired from the board of Public Service
Indiana.
In Chicago he became a broker and was associated with Golden Sacks company and later
was a partner in Field, Ward & Glore, a leading stock and bond brokerage company. The senior
member was Marshall Field III.
Surviving are his wife and three children, Mrs. Jean WARD WOLLETT, Culver; Peirce
Coltom WARD Jr., Riverside, Conn; and Miss Edith Aishton WARD, Laguna Beach, Cal.; eight
grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Culver Military Academy Memorial chapel
with the Academy chaplain, Jared F. FOSTER, officiating. Burial will be in Spring Vale
cemetery, Lafayette. Friends may call at the Easterday-Bonine funeral home in Culver after 4
p.m. Sunday.
The family requests that memorials other than flowers be in the form of contributions to
the coronary unit of Parkview hospital, Plymouth.
Edith Brubaker
Mrs. Eugene (Edith) CHESTNUT BRUBAKER died at her residence in Chicago
Wednesday. A former Rochester resident she was the daughter of Milo and Minnie CHESTNUT.
Surviving are one daughter, one sister and two grandchildren.
Final rites will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist church on Ironwood road, South
Bend. Graveside services will be at the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery at 4 p.m.