Berrien County MI Archives Obituaries.....Drolet, Francis Benjamin August 2, 1967 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Ellen Drolet marydrolet@comcast.net January 17, 2008, 8:09 pm Niles Daily Star, August 4, 1967, page 2 Francis B. Drolet, 78, 13 N. 14th St., died Thursday at 5:30 p.m.. in the Memorial Hospital, South Bend, where he had been a patient for six days. Drolet was born in Decatur, Ind, Feb. 17, 1889. He moved here from Kalamazoo in 1924. He is a retired executive secretary of the Associated Package Liquor Dealers of Michigan. He owned and operated Drolet's Drug Store in Niles from 1925 to 1951. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a registered pharmacist. He is survived by his wife, Kathryn T. Drolet, a daughter, Mrs. James W. Reilly of Brown City; five sons, Francis B. Drolet, Jr., of Coldwater, Alfred A. Drolet, of Scottsdale, Ariz., Louis P. Drolet, of Niles, Daniel E. Drolet, of Battle Creek, and George W. Drolet, in the Navy, stationed in Norfolk, Va.: and two sisters, Mrs. Lulu Solomon and Mrs. Helene Dillon, both of Fort Worth, Tex. And 23 grandchildren. The funeral will take place at the St. Mark Catholic Church, Monday, at 10 a.m. The rosary will be read Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Halbritter-Swem Funeral Home. Burial will take place in the Calvary Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/berrien/obits/d/drolet2791gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb