Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Chapman, Helen (Pat) 2009
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, February 28, 2009

Helen “Pat” Chapman, age 75, of Orleans Township, passed away at Spectrum 
Health’s Blodgett Campus in Grand Rapids on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 after a 
long battle with diabetes.  

Born in Detroit to Robert and Helen Calnon Caldwell on June 6, 1933, she 
married Frederick A. Chapman of Orleans Township on Feb. 27, 1954 in Detroit.  
A graduate of the Academy of the Sacred Heart High School in Detroit, she 
attended the University of Detroit where she was a member of Kappa Beta Gamma 
Sorority.  Pat was an avid birdwatcher.  She focused much of her efforts on 
raising her family.  Mrs. Chapman was a dedicated volunteer in many of her 
children’s activities, whether at school or in her daughter’s U.S. Pony Club 
activities or her son’s Boy Scouts of American functions.  In addition to 
raising her family. She worked at the Sudbury (Mass.) Nursing Home and was a 
Welcome Wagon hostess in North Hampton, N.H.  She also bred registered 
Persians cats and was an avid bowler.  Pat was a member of SS. Peter and Paul 
Parish in Ionia since 1900 when she and her husband moved to Orleans Township 
from New Jersey.

She is survived by her husband Frederick; daughter Laurie (John A. Bosco) 
Chapman-Bosco of Rochester, N.H.; son Frederick A. (Cynthia L.) Chapman III of 
Churchville, Penn.; and six grandchildren, Kimberly L. Chapman, Melissa A. 
Chapman, Frederick A. Chapman IV, Thomas A. Chapman, Jennifer E. Bosco and 
Andrew J. Bosco and many nieces and nephews.

A Christian mass of burial will be celebrated by Fr. Melvin Fox Saturday, 11 
a.m. at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Ionia.  The family will receive 
friends and relatives on Friday, Feb. 20, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at the 
Lake Funeral Home in Ionia with Scripture service at 7:30 p.m., and on 
Saturday at 10 a.m. prior to the 11 a.m. Mass.  In lieu of flowers the family 
suggests memorials to SS. Peter & Paul Education Trust, 434 High Street, 
Ionia, MI  48846, Academy of the Sacred Heart, 1250 Kensington Rd., 
Bloomfield, Mi 48304, or the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454 
Alexandria, VA 22312.  Interment will be in the spring at Mt. Olivet Catholic 
Cemetery in Ionia Township.


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