Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Chapin, Galen S. 1975 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net July 17, 2011, 10:56 am Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 21 Oct 1975 Galen S. Chapin, 69, of Oklawaha, Fla., died Sunday at the Monroe hospital in Oklawaha. He was a former Lake Odessa and Southfield resident. He was born in Orange township February 9, 1906, the son of Melvin and Nancy Shaw Chapin. He attended the Lake Odessa high school and later moved to Southfield where he was a plumbing and heating contractor in the Detroit area 48 years retiring in 1971, when he moved to Florida. He was married at Lake Odessa July 30, 1927, to Evelyn Switzer and she survives as do a daughter, Nancy Chapin of Oklawaha, Fla.; son, Jack Chapin of Livonia, five grandchildren; sister, Mrs. Arthur Hart of St. Petersburg, Fla., and brother, Roger Chapin of Colchester, Ontario, Canada. Services will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Pickens Koops funeral home chapel at Lake Odessa. Rev. William Hertel will officiate and interment will be at the Lakeside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/chapin14899nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb