272. Gerald Arden Corwin
1 _MILT
2 PLAC Served in WWII US Army Military Police
Dowagiac Daily News Thursday April 5, 1990
Thomas and Sue Reed
Word has been received by the family of Thomas and Sue (Corwin) Reed that they were killed Friday March 30, in California, when their private airplane exploded upon take-off.The reeds, who were former Dowagiac residents, moved to California in 1967 and lived in South Whittier. Mr Reed was a self-employed pattern abd mold maker.
Funeral services will be held Friday, April 6, at 11:30 am at the Rosehill Funeral Home in South Whittier.
Cards can be mailed to the family at 120309 Kayreid Dr, South Whittier CA, 90605.
The Reeds are survived by three sons, John, Greg and Rich; two daughters, Debbie and Pam; and nine grandchildren - all of California. Survivors also include Mrs. Reed's Mother Francis Corwin Spaulding of Fort Myers, Fla. Her Father is the late Rex Corin. who was a barber in Dowagiac until the time of his death in 1967.
Mr Reed is survived by two sisters, Ann of Royal Oak, and Isobell of Oxnard CA; and a brother, Charles of Plano IL.
This provided by Nancy Corwin
280. Carrol Roberts
(Medical):She had MS
From Perry Nelson Hill
I am not sure whether you have these statistics or not. But I thought I would send you David Wadsworth's stats.David Walker Wadsworth
Born: June 23, 1940
Died: September 23, 1998I am not sure what facts you have in your geneaology lists. I haven't heard from you in a while.
John starts out-patient physical therapy on Tuesday. Instead of the therapists coming to his home, he goes to the rehabilitation center and exercises three days a week. I am sure he is having trouble sending e-mail. He is naturally left-handed and is now paralyzed on the left side, he is having to learn how to use his right hand. The complication comes because we don't realize how often we use both hands in everything we do.
291. Perry Nelson Hill
From a conversation with Aunt Lila, April 19, 1993 I was born at the old Hodgeman place Alleg an County, Lee Township.
From Mother's old Bible it is entered that I was born 10:15 AM and weight in at 8 pounds.
From the Baptismal records of the Diocese of Belleville, 222 South Third Street, Belleville , Illinois 62220. Record number 003869 I was baptized on Sept 23, 1953 as Robert Perry Hill , Gerard Tonies was my sponsor. (Father, Chauncey Hill, and Mother, Reva Siver) at St Elizabe th Church in East St. Louis, Illinois. Father Francis L. Seyer conducted the Baptisim, and th en solemnized our wedding vows as we were married by a Justice of Peace in Sept. 23, 1950.
Confirmation was at the same Church St. Elizabeth, on Nov. 21 1954, and John Stanek was my sp onsor. I don't remember this as the day on confirmation, I thought if happen the next mont h of 1953.March 23, 2002
Thumbnail of my history, grew up in Michigan, married went into service, never went back to Michigan, have lived in IL, TN, GA, TX, and OK for the past 29 years. We have three daughters and two grandsons. We live about 3 miles south of I-40 between Yukon and Mustang. There were three siblings in my family a brother, a sister and I. My sister passed away in 1975, my brother still lives in Michigan a few miles from Bangor. I attended High School in South Haven, Michigan. Worked at many jobs, spent the last 15 years of my work life at the City Of Oklahoma, retired Jan. 1993. Now spend a lot of time trying to track down family history. All but two close relatives have past on, left is my mothers sister and my fathers brother, both are now in their eighties. I will turn 74 July of this year. There are first cousins everywhere and there are many. I did meet your grandfathers brother John Siver once, it was about 50 years ago so I don't remember much about him. He had been sick that winter and eat a lot of sulfur to cure his ailment. Makes me wonder if Michael and William really wanted to commit suicide or trying to
cure some ailment. I remember my grandpa George Siver putting some kind of acid on a tooth that was giving him trouble. I think I remember seeing the smoke coming from the tooth. He was quite a fellow later he had false teeth, of course I was at his heels a lot as child. He takes his teeth out to clean them, I stand there in amazement. Like it happened yesterday he said "you cant' take your teeth out like that? So I go around pulling on my teeth but of course nothing ever happened, until they got ready to fall out. It was then nobody but grandma could pull them for me. She could snap them out never hurting, everyone else including myself hurt.Perry
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THE BEGINNING OF FIFTY YEARS
About one thousand nine hundred and fifty years after the birth of Jesus Christ ou r savior. We find a 19-year old lady from Tennessee, with the adventurous heart of her ances tors. Working in a garment factory at Bruceton, a small town in western Tennessee. Being i n need of a vacation and encouraged by relatives who were spending the summer in Michigan. T his young lady packed some things in her 1937 Ford and along with her family headed for th e adventure waiting her in Michigan. This all happened about the 7th month of that year. Aft er spending some time enjoying the lakeside beach, swimming and sun bathing. Her aunt sugges ted they check to see what kind of work there was to be found in this town of South Haven, Mi chigan. They stopped at a company by the name of Pierce & Williams, better known to the tow n folks as the basket factory. Her and her aunt both started to work at this factory.
Working at this place was a 22 year old boy who had been at the plant a number o f years and worked his way up from fishing log blocks out of the steam cooking vats to venee r lathe operator. While the pay was not the best, for the area, 98 cents per hour. It wa s a suitable wage for a 22 year old male living at home. Fate was destine to intervene, an o ld Jewish gentleman known to his co-workers as Louie suggested to this young man, you bring s pop bottle to the second floor to put in the storage rack and I introduce you to new empl oyee. You also must keep in mind that this young lady was cautioned to be careful of who sh e associated with, as Michigan had mixed races and they may look Caucasian but are not, besid es if they are born in Michigan they are Yankees. In spite of all of that, Perry Nelson Hil l and Burnice Tean Arnold were introduced. Where upon a dating period began. Stock car races , movies, and just enjoying the company of each other. This all started about the 1st of th e 8th month. Perry was soon to receive notice to report to the draft board for induction int o the Army in September. However the company was able to get a 3 month extension to allow t ime for training a replacement lathe operator. An act of innocence's, that of allowing Burn ice Tean to wear his class ring, sparked a comment from granny Arnold. By wearing that rin g it is a sign of engagement From that comment plans for a marriage started to be worked ou t. As Perry was a wee bit bashful, shy and etc. A large wedding was out of the question. A sking for her hand in marriage was also lacking, as well as overlooking the fact a ring is ne eded. It was to be more like two orphans on there own looking out for each other. # In a sho rt span of time, six weeks, an apartment was secured, blood test taken, special permission wa s granted to by pass the waiting period of 10 days after the license was issued. With all o f that behind them, this couple meet Saturday morning September 23, 1950 to finish the rest o f the unfinished business. First a trip to Benton Harbor, Michigan. Sears was the main stop ping point where all of the things needed to set up house keeping were secured. Dishes, bedd ing and many odds and ends. A trip to the woman's clothing section secured a dress to wear a t the wedding. The day melted into evening, and time to meet at the home of Roy S. McCrimmo n was close at hand. Picking up the sister of the groom and the brother of the bride, the fo ur proceeded to the home of Justice of Peace Roy S. McCrimmon for the 7 PM appointment. Just ice McCrimmon was in the mist of installing new carpet, so we had to stand around a roll of c arpet, but that did not stop the flow of those beautiful words connected to a marriage contra ct, and the promise to take care of one another until death do us part. What God has joine d together let no man put asunder. With the marriage vows spoken and the marriage solemnized , the four left Justice McCrimmons home and journeyed to Bangor, Michigan to take in a movie . So on this day September 5, 2000 some fifty years later, with three daughters, and two gra ndsons the result of this union we look forward to September 23, 2000 and fifty years of Marr iage. #