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| REGIMENT: |
Battery
A 1st Missouri Light Artillery |
| RANK: |
Private |
| BIRTH: |
06
Aug 1876 |
| WHERE: |
Elsa,
Jersey Co, Illinois |
| DEATH: |
08
Jan 1965 |
| WHERE: |
Illinois
Soldiers & Sailors Home
Quincy, Adams Co., IL |
| BURIED: |
Sunset
Hills Cemetery
Edwardsville Twp., Madison Co.,
IL |
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 One of the Quad-Cities few remaining
Spanish-American War veterans, George T. Chappee,
88, of 2647 State street, died about 5:15 p.m.,
Friday at the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home,
Quincy.He
had been ill one month and at the home since Oct.
1.
Mr. Chappee was a
retired grocer and had operated a store at West
21st street and Illinois avenue. He also was a
member of the Laborers Local 397, V.F.W. Post
1300 and was a past commander of the
Spanish-American War Veterans post. He also was
one of the first members of the board of the
Cahokia Mound Boy Scout Council.
He was a native of
Jersey county and lived here for 63 years. His
wife, Flora, died last Oct.17. They had been
married 63 years.
Survivors include
a son, Hayden B. Chappee, and a daughter, Mrs.
Arlene Fox, both of Granite City, five brothers,
Louis of Bartlett, N.H., and Evan, Roy, Julius
and Joseph Chappee, all of Protection, Kan.; a
sister, Mrs. Evelyn Brown of Protection; three
grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Services were held
this afternoon. Further information is given in
today's obituary column.
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OBITUARY
George
T. Chappee, 88, of 2647 State St., Granite City,
at the Illinois Soldier Home in Quincy, Jan. 8.
Veteran of the Spanish-American War and was a
past commander of the Spanish American War
Veterans. Survived by a son Hayden B. Chappee and
a daughter Mrs. Arlene Fox Mercer.
SOURCE:
Granite City Press-Record - January 11, 1965
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