Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-09-27
COLLEGE HEAD
DIES SUDDENLY
in A CHURCH
Crumples In Front Of The Pull
pit In Madonna, Hartford
County
FUNERAL SERVICE HELD
ON WEDNESDAY LAST

DR.. A. Norman Ward, for fifteen
years president of Western Maryland
College, died suddenly on Sunday last
at Madonna, Hartford County. Md.
DR.. Ward was preaching in Bethel
Presbyterian Church, when he sudden
~ crumpled and fell dead on the floor
in front of the pulpit. DR.. Edwin B.
Jarrett, of Baltimore, who was visit
ing is mother at Jarrettsville, was
summoned and he pronounced the
noted divine and educator, dead.
DR.. Ward had apparently been in
good health lately, although he had
suffered from heart ailment for
some time. On his return from ride
earlier in the day with James P.
Wantz, member of the Western Mary
land board of trustees, he said he had
"never felt better"
DR.. Ward was long prominent in the
affairs of the Methodist Protestant
Church, and recently was named a
member of committee of fifteen to
workout plans for consolidating the
Methodist Protestant and the South
ern Methodist branches of the church.
DIR. Ward graduated from the West
ern Maryland College in 1895 and in
the years following served in pulpits
in Washington, Seattle, WASH; Balti-
more and Denton, Md. In 1914 he be-
came vice-president Of the school from
which he graduated, but left there
several years later to become chancel-
lor of the Kansas City University, of
Kansas City, Kan. In 1920 he was
elected to the presidency of the insti-
tuition he served until the time of his
death.
DIR. Ward was the son of the late
John T. and Elizabeth Ward, of Har-
ford county. Survivors, besides his
wife and son, include three sisters,
Mrs. Edgar Cairnes, of Jarrettsville;
Mrs. William Roe, of Bel Air, and Mrs.
Maud lockwood of Washington and
one brother, Thomas H. Ward, of Jar
rettsville.
William r. Mcdaniel is vice-presi-
dent of the Western Maryland College,
and it is understood he will assume
DIR. Wards duties until successor
can be named.
Funeral services were conducted on
Wednesday by the Rev. DR.. E. A.
Sexsmith, president of the Maryland
Annual Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church, and they were held
in the college auditorium. The body
had lain in state since his death in
Alumni Hall, guarded by members of
the r. o. T. C. The active pallbearers
were Samuel B. Schofield, Carl L.
Schaeffer, Lloyd M. Berthof, Lawrence
C. Little, Hugh B. Speir, Latimer FL
derdice, Jr., Jon Makosky, Charles w.
Havens and Robert r. Carman, Of
Baltimore.
Honorary pallbearers were DIR. Will
liam P. Cation, Frank w. Mather, Geo.
K. Mather, ]. Bibb Mills, John l..
Reifsnider, Jr., and members Of the
board of trustees of the college and
members of the faculty.
DR.. Wards sudden demise removes
a distinguished churchman and educa-
tor from the State. He was signally
successful in the advancement Of the
institution of which he was the head,
and his place will be hard to fill. The
alumni adm all other friends Of the
college mourn his passing, and great
concourse Of those who loved and adj
mired him, followed him to his last
resting place in the cemetery at West
minister.