CHAPUIS, Lee Ernest 1895 - 1934

CHAPUIS, FISHER, HARRIS, BRYAN, JOHNSON

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:28

"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Wednesday, October 17, 1934
Front Page, Column 3

LEE CHAPIUS (sic - CHAPUIS) KILLED WHILE COMING HERE
Lansing, Mich., Resident In Accident in Indiana Today

Lee CHAPIUS (sic), 39-year-old former resident of this community, was killed in an automobile accident at Michigan City, Ind., early this morning while en route to Fairfield. He was coming to get his wife, who has been visiting relatives in Fairfield and her father, Snowden FISHER of near Birmingham, for the past week.

No information regarding the accident was given in the telegram received by Mrs. CHAPIUS this morning.

Mr. CHAPIUS lived in Lansing, Mich., where he had made his home for the past five years since leaving Fairfield.

He is a son of Mrs. Peter CHAPIUS, who lives near Glasgow. His father passed away last summer.

Clay CHAPIUS, a brother who is employed at the Jefferson county hospital, left with a Murray Funeral Home ambulance for Michigan City at 1:00 o'clock this afternoon, to bring the body back to Fairfield. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Friday, October 19, 1934
Page SEVEN, Column 7

CHAPUIS Funeral To be Sunday At Murray Home Here

The funeral services for Lee CHAPUIS, who was recently killed in an automobile accident will be held at the Murray funeral home in Fairfield, at 2:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon, in charge of Rev. S. P. Williamson. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Saturday, October 20, 1934
Front Page, Column 1

CHAPUIS MET DEATH IN CAR TRUCK MISHAP
Brother of Fairfield Man Will be Laid to Rest Here Sunday

An account of how Lee CHAPUIS met death in an accident at Michigan City, Indiana, has been received in Fairfield. CHAPUIS, who is a brother of Clay CHAPUIS of Fairfield was killed on October 17th.

The account in the Michigan City News states:

A head-on collision between a truck and an automobile ot (sic) 4:30 o'clock this morning on U. S. No. 12 one mile west of New Buffalo, Mich. resulted in the death of one man and serious injury to another. Two escaped with minor hurts.

The dead:

Lee CHAPUIS, 33 years, old, of Lansing, Mich. who died three hours later in the St. Anthony hospital. He suffered a skull fracture, fracture of the let (sic - left) jaw, injuries to the right eye and also cuts and bruises.

The most seriously inpured (sic) is George Oetman, 45 years old of Hamilton, Mich., who is confined to the clinic hospital with a severe fracture of the left elbow and cuts and bruises to the right hand. His condition is described as serious.

Howard Johnston, 20; Libertyville, Ia., sustained cuts to the forehead, injuries to his hands, and other minor cuts, while Silas Person, 25; of Lansing, was cut about the face and forehead. Both of these are confined to the St. Anthony hospital.

Oetman, who was traveling east on the highway in the truck is alleged to have fallen asleep and lost control of the machine which swerved to the left side of the highway and crashed practically head-on into the other car which was headed toward Michigan City enroute to the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago.

Oetman was alone in the truck whole (sic) Johnston and Pearson accompanied CHAPUIS. The injured were brought to local hospitals in the Smith ambulance but CHAPUIS died without regaining consciousness. Little hope was held for his life at any time after the accident.

According to Deputy Sheriff Kuecra of New Buffalo, who investigated the collision, CHAPUIS had apparently attempted to avoid the accident by swerving off the highway but could not get out of the path of the speeding truck.

The entire left side of the automobile was torn while serious damage was done to the left side of the truck cab.

CHAPUIS' body was removed to the Smith Funeral Home in New Buffalo following his death.

Coroner B. E. Kohnczyk said today that no date for the inquest into CHAPIUS' (sic) death had been set, but indicated that it probably would not be held until Oetman is able to testify.

Funeral services for CHAPUIS will be held at the Campbell Funeral Home in Fairfield, Sunday at 2:00 o'clock in charge of Rev. S. P. Williamson. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Saturday, October 20, 1934
Page SIX, Column 1

Locals

... --Mr. and Mrs. Robert HARRIS and Mr. HARRIS' mother of Boone will come to Fairfield to attend the funeral of Lee CHAPUIS, on Sunday. Mrs. Harris and Mrs. CHAPUIS are sisters.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Tuesday, October 23, 1934
Page EIGHT, Column 1

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR LEE CHAPUIS

Funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon in Fairfield at the Murray Funeral Home for Lee CHAPUIS, who was killed in an accident in Michigan City, Ind., on October 17th. The services wre attended by many friends of the family. The place of the holding of the funeral was accidentally misprinted in Saturday's edition, the services being held at the Murray Funeral Home as stated above. He was laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Friday, October 26, 1934
Page THREE, Columns 1 and 2

OBITUARY

LEE E. CHAPUIS

Lee Ernest CHAPUIS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter CHAPUIS, was born on July 23, 1895 in Jefferson county, Ia. on a farm near Glasgow, where he spent his life until July 22, 1918, when he entered the World War, where he served a year as a National Guard in the east. After receiving an honorable discharge he returned to the home farm.

On December 20, 1922, he was united in marriage to Mary FISHER, and they spent six years of their married life on a farm near Stockport. From there they moved to Lansing, Michigan where Mr. CHAPUIS spent six years employed in the Olds Motor Works.

Early Wednesday morning, October 17, 1934, while enroute to Fairfield to visit his mother and other relatives and to take his wife, who was just recovering from an operation, back to their home in Lansing, he met his death in an automobile accident near New Buffalo, Michigan, being 39 years 2 months and 24 days of age.

Mr. CHAPUIS was preceded in death by his father on July 23 of this year.

Those left to mourn the loss of the loved one are the sorrowing wife, Mary; mother, Mrs. Mary CHAPUIS of near Glasgow; the following brothers and sisters: Clay of Fairfield; Louis and Ray of Stockport; Walter of near Fairfield, Flora BRYAN of Davenport and Mrs. Chas. JOHNSON of Fullerton, Nort Dakota.

Many relatives and friends are also left to mourn the departed one.

Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Sunday October 21, from the Murray Funeral Home at Fairfield, Iowa with Rev. S. P. Williamson, pastor of the First Christian church officiating. Pallbearers were close friends of Mr. CHAPUIS: Guy Carr, Addis Turpin, Marshall Keller, Guy Fry, Hubert Fry and Ray Grant.

There were many beautiful floral offerings from relatives and friends from this community, from many Lansing friends and the Olds Motor Works.

Interment was in the Evergreen cemetery in Fairfield with the Allen Jewett Post Legion firing squad in charge.

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Note: Buried in Lot 2nd.050. Wife Mary subsequently married to Harold SMOCK, died in 1975, and is buried with him in Michigan.