- Date Of Birth: August 30, 1915
- Date Of Death: May 27, 2010
- State: Michigan
Age 94, passed away on Thursday, May 27, 2010. He was born on August 30, 1915 in Ionia the son of Alexander Bell and Frances (Babcock) Sibley. Alexander graduated from Ionia High School in 1933 and also from Western Michigan University in 1937. In 1941 he enlisted in the United States Army and was honorably discharged as a Major in 1945 at the end of World War II. He married Ellen Gould, an Army nurse in 1942 at Camp Callen, California and she preceded him in death in 2001. They acquired the family farm and moved back to Ionia in 1948 from Kalamazoo where Alexander worked for UpJohn Corporation. He then worked for Fuller Furniture and retired from Mitchell Bentley in 1980 as an accountant. He joined the National Guard in Ionia while simultaneously running the family farm. In 1956 he became the Supervior for Easton Township and continued on for 39 years. He served on the Ionia County Memorial Hospital Board, was the Ionia County Zoning Commission Chairman, was a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Farm Bureau, Ionia Hunting and Fishing Club, Ionia Historical Society, and the I.H.S. Alumni Association. He was a lifelong Democrat who worked with the Ionia County Board of Supervisors and others to get the State of Michigan to take over the county poor farm in Berlin Township to establish the Ionia State Recreation Area. Surviving are his four children, Kathleen Akers of Phoenix, AZ, Andy Sibley of Ionia, Martha Jajuga of Mt. Pleasant, MI, and Susan Chase of Denver, CO; six grandchildren; 2 great grandchildren.
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