Auburn “Charles” Ward

April 18, 1905 – October 21, 1961

Auburn “Charles” Ward, 56, died Saturday, October 21, 1961, in a Walla Walla, Washington hospital after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Milton-Freewater, Ore.

Born in Missouri on April 18, 1905, he was the son of Charles Lewis and Minda Emaline Cooper Ward. He graduated from Perry high school in 1923.

On May 22, 1927, he and fellow PHS alumni, Zella Marguerite Stackhouse, were married at her parents’ home in Perry. The couple made their home in Tulsa where Mr. Ward was connected with the American Telephone and Telegraph company. He and Zella divorced and he married Bertha Canella Ledbetter. They were blessed with three children.

The family left Tulsa about 1945 to live in Oregon, where Auburn continued working for American Telephone and Telegraph.

Surviving are his widow, Bertha; two sons, Charles A. Jr. and Romane Lew, both of the home; and a daughter, Mrs. JoAnn Brown of Pasco, Wash.

Services will be held in Milton-Freewater, Oregon. Burial will be in the Milton-Freewater IOOF Cemetery.