Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Shean, Charles 1936
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Portland Observer, 26 Mar 1936

Warden Charles Shean, of Jackson Prison, Dies

Suffered Stroke Wednesday While Attending Rotary Club Luncheon.  Resided In 
Portland Two Years Before Going To Jackson 14 Months Ago.  Funeral Saturday.

Charles Shean, 59, warden of the state prison of southern Michigan at Jackson 
since January 1, 1935, died Wednesday afternoon, three hours after suffering a 
stroke of apoplexy while attending a Rotary club luncheon at the Hotel Hayes in 
that city.  He was stricken about 1:30 and immediately taken to a hospital 
where death came at 4:30.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Saturday afternoon from the Episcopal 
church at Jackson with burial at Kalamazoo.

Warden Shean had been in poor health recently, suffering from a toxic condition 
resulting from food poisoning incurred several weeks ago in Lansing.

For two years, prior to his appointment as warden of the Jackson prison, Mr. 
Shean and his family resided in Portland, making their home in the old Will 
Stone residence near the schoolhouse on Brush street.  While here the warden 
made many warm friends, a number of whom were notified of his death over the 
telephone by G. I. Francis and Chas. T. Lockwood, who left here and accepted 
positions at the prison at the time of his appointment as warden.

Warden Shean was born in Richland, Mich., and when a youth went to Kalamazoo 
where, in 1904, he was elected sheriff of Kalamazoo county.  He served two 
terms, from January 1, 1905, to January 1, 1909, then served Kalamazoo as 
police commissioner for several years.  He was appointed deputy warden at 
Jackson prison in 1918 and served until 1922 when he was appointed warden of 
the Ionia reformatory.  He was retired from that position in 1933 by Governor 
Comstock, and lived in Portland until called to take over the Jackson 
institution by Governor Fitzgerald in January, 1935.

He is survived by his wife, Maude, and two sons, Charles, who remained in 
Portland when his parents moved to Jackson, and George, a clerk in his father’s 
office at the prison.


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