Novice Beard Ward (LPN CLEARWATER, S.C.)

LPN CLEARWATER, S.C. - Entered into rest on Saturday, March 14, 2009, Mrs. Novice Beard Ward, wife of the late Mr. Fred C. Ward, of Corley Drive, Clearwater, SC. Surviving are three sons: Kevin Douglas Ward, North Augusta, SC, Carl Wendell Ward, Columbia, SC and Kenneth Travis Ward (Dianne), North Augusta, SC; two daughters, Karen Ward Loper and Carol Ward Brock (Joe), all of Panama City, FL; fourteen grandchildren, twenty two great grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren. Mrs. Ward was born in Aiken County, SC to the late Butler and Henrietta Beauford Beard. She was a retired LPN and she was a charter member of Clearwater First Baptist Church and their Swinging Sixties. Funeral services will be on Tuesday at Clearwater First Baptist Church at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. John Bolin officiating. Interment will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Graniteville, South Carolina. Pallbearers will be Corky Loper, Craig Loper, Cobie Loper, Casey Loper, Travis Ward, Trevor Ward and Jeffrey Reid. Friends may call at the residence of Kenneth Ward, 545 Lake Santee Drive, North Augusta, SC or on Monday evening from 6 until 8 at Hatcher Funeral Home and Cremation Service, U.S. Hwy. No. 1, Langley, SC. Sign the guestbook at AugustaChronicle.com

The Augusta Chronicle-March 16, 2009