Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Chapman, Aurelia August 19, 1949
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, August 25, 1949
A solemn requiem high mass was sung by the Rev. Fr. John S. Fons at 9:00 a.m. 
Monday for Mrs. Fred A. Chapman, who died suddenly Friday morning at her 
summer cottage on Long Lake.

The funeral was held following a prayer service at the Boynton Funeral Home at 
8:30 a.m.  Interment was in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

The pall bearers were Edward McGrath, John McGrath, Clayton Paquette, Elmer 
Rheaume, Louis Davis, and Henry Peabody.

In charge of the flowers were Mrs. Edwin Houghton, Mrs. George Coe, Jr., Mrs. 
James Hilton and Mrs. Martin D. McNamara.

Mrs. Chapman’s death was entirely unexpected even though she had not been in 
good health for some time.  Death was attributed to a heart attack.

She was the widow of the late Fred A. Chapman, former mayor of Ionia, former 
warden at Michigan State Reformatory, and former partner of the late ex-Gov. 
Fred W. Green.

Mrs. Chapman was born in Detroit, Dec. 13, 1891, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Joseph Denk.  She was one of 13 children.  On April 10, 1928 she married Mr. 
Chapman and moved to Ionia.  She lived here until his death on Oct. 18, 1938, 
and then she divided her time between her summer cottage on Longe Lake and her 
winter home in Miami, Fla.

Mrs. Chapman was a member of the St. Rose of Lima Church of Miami and a former 
member of the Ionia SS Peter and Paul parish.  In Miami she was a past 
president of the Altar Society of St. Rose of Lima Church.  While a member of 
SS Peter and Paul Church of Ionia she was a regent of the Daughters of 
Isabella.

Surviving are a daughter, Aurelia C., and a son, Frederick Jr., both at the 
Long Lake cottage; a brother Eugene C. Denk of Detroit; three sisters, Mrs. 
Lora McGrath and Mrs. Autilla Scanlon, and Mrs. Agnes Paquette of Windsor, 
Ont.  One sister, Mrs. Cecelia Lauhoff of Detroit died last October and a 
brother, Titus Denk, died July 1, 1949.

Out-of-town residents attending the funeral included: Fred A. Chapman, Jr., 
and Miss Aurelia C. Chapman, son and daughter, and Mrs. Marie Marshal and Miss 
Carol Marshal, all of Miami, Fla.

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Denk, Miss Margaret Denk, Mrs. John Scanlon, Miss Mary 
Scanlon, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Rheaume, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. McGrath, Mr. and 
Mrs. John McGrath, Mrs. Kenneth Boehme, Mrs. Lee Gerrett, Mrs. Mayme Denk, Mr. 
and Mrs. Louis Davis, Miss Mary Jane Davis, Miss Adele Denk, Ken Carner, Mrs. 
Mayme Garvey, Miss Lucille Lingeman, Mrs. Frank Lingeman, Mr. and Mrs. Fred 
Vise, Mr. and Mrs. Ed McGrath, and Mr. and Mrs. John Longe, all from Detroit.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Finley of Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. O. Paquette and Mrs. 
Clayton Paquette and Catherine Pelzer, all of Windsor, Ont.; Mr. and Mrs. 
Frank Chapman and Mrs. Rhonda Gaumann of Wyandotte; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Conlon 
of Toledo, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Koerber and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Pierce of 
Port Huron and Mr. and Mrs. John Spitzley of Westphalia.


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