Individual Details
Maynard C. Bellard
(24 Mar 1912 - 22 Nov 1965)
Morning Star, Rockford, Illinois, Wednesday, November 24, 1965, Page 8: Bellard Rites Set Thursday in Beloit. Our Area News Service Belvidere--Private services for Maynard Bellard, 53, a former employee of Barber-Colman Co., Rockford, who was found dead at his rooming house here Monday night, will be Thursday in Chilson Funeral Home, Beloit, Wis. Burial will be in the Eastlawn Cemetery, Beloit. Friends may call in the funeral home tonight. Mr. Bellard apparently was the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot would, according to Boone County Corner Albert Wheeler. An inquest will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Boone County Courthouse.
Wheeler said Mr. Bellard, who left his job in Rockford in September because of poor health, was found by his landlady, Mrs. Eda Mae Vail, 319 W. 7th St., at about 4:30 p.m. Monday when she came home from work. Mr. Bellard was found on the dining room floor with a gunshot would in his forehead. He was clutching a .22 caliber rifle in his hands.
Survivors include a son, Robert, Beloit; a daughter, Mrs. Floyd Gibbon, Beloit; a brother, Don, and four sisters, Mrs. Ernest Rosenow, Mrs. Jack Kummerow, and Mrs. Wallace Boone, all of Beloit, and Mrs. Fred Werner, South Beloit.
Inscription on gravestone photo from findagrave.com: SSGT US Marine Corps World War II.
Wheeler said Mr. Bellard, who left his job in Rockford in September because of poor health, was found by his landlady, Mrs. Eda Mae Vail, 319 W. 7th St., at about 4:30 p.m. Monday when she came home from work. Mr. Bellard was found on the dining room floor with a gunshot would in his forehead. He was clutching a .22 caliber rifle in his hands.
Survivors include a son, Robert, Beloit; a daughter, Mrs. Floyd Gibbon, Beloit; a brother, Don, and four sisters, Mrs. Ernest Rosenow, Mrs. Jack Kummerow, and Mrs. Wallace Boone, all of Beloit, and Mrs. Fred Werner, South Beloit.
Inscription on gravestone photo from findagrave.com: SSGT US Marine Corps World War II.
Events
| Birth | 24 Mar 1912 | Lima, Grant Co., Wisconsin |  | ||
| Residence | 1956 | Janesville, Rock Co., Wisconsin | | ||
| Death | 22 Nov 1965 | Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin | | ||
| Alt name | Maynard C Bellard | | |||
| Burial | Eastlawn Cemetery, Beloit, Rock Co., Wisconsin | |
Families
| Spouse | Vivian ??? ( - ) |
| Child | Robert Bellard ( - ) |
| Father | Chauncy Leonard Bellard (1878 - 1930) |
| Mother | Zora Kirkpatrick (1884 - 1920) |
| Sibling | Marie Mary Bellard (1902 - 1976) |
| Sibling | Harold Eugene Bellard (1903 - 1965) |
| Sibling | Donald Ralph Bellard (1904 - 1992) |
| Sibling | Gerald Milton Bellard (1906 - 1949) |
| Sibling | Renice Lucille Bellard (1907 - 1968) |
| Sibling | Isczidal Bellard (1909 - 1910) |
| Sibling | Genevieve Leora Bellard (1910 - 1982) |
| Sibling | Helen D. Bellard (1915 - 1991) |
Endnotes
1. E-Mail from Kathleen Wolfe (n.p: August 2010, n.d).
2. Ancestry.com, U. S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta) (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Database online..
3. Obituary of Maynard Bellard, Morning Star, Rockford, Illinois, Wednesday, November 24, 1965, Page 8.
4. Ancestry.com, U. S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta) (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Database online..
5. Obituary of Maynard Bellard, Morning Star, Rockford, Illinois, Wednesday, November 24, 1965, Page 8.