Obituary Record
Ward, Stella Reynolds - Unknown Date
Funeral services for Mrs. Thomas Ward, local painter of landscapes who died Thursday, were held at 2 p.m. Saturday from Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Inc. funeral home in New Orleans.
Religious services were held at the funeral house and burial was in Garden of Memories cemetery.
Mrs. Ward died at 3 p.m. Thursday in King's Daughters Hospital following a lengthy illness. She was 83.
A native of New Orleans, Mrs. Ward was the former Stella Reynolds and was the widow of the late Thomas Grant Ward of Northern Ireland. He died in 1950 in Bay St. Louis.
For many years Mrs. Ward resided with her husband in Belfast but in 1920 she and her family returned to the United States to settle here, where Mrs. Ward pursued her painting.
She was the daughter of L. E. Reynolds, New Orleans architect and builder.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Albert Garrett of Kenner and London, Mrs. Jesse Yeakner of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Raymond J. Martinez of New Orleans; one son, Cecil Campbell Ward of Bay St. Louis; and three grandchildren.
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