Plummer - Caroline Chapman
Source: The Herald-Palladium, Benton Harbor - St. Joseph, Michigan - Thursday 27 February 1975 p 16
Caroline Plummer, 60, former teacher at the Gard school in St. Joseph and wife of a former president of Lake Michigan college, died Wednesday at Ann Arbor. She had been ill with cancer the past four years. While her husband, Dr. Robert Plummer, served as president of Lake Michigan college for a year and a half in 1966 and 1967, Mrs. Plummer was a special education teacher in Gard school. Born in Crawfordsville, Ind., where both of her parents were on the faculty of Wabash college, she had directed the program for trainable children for the Carmen school district in Flint before coming here. She was the first president of the Genesee County Retarded Children association and was a former treasurer of the Michigan Council for Exceptional Children. Besides her husband, she is survived by two sons, Philip of Flint and David of Pentwater; 6 grandchildren; two sisters and brothers. A daughter, Elizabeth, preceded her in death. Memorial services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Washtenaw Community college, Ann Arbor, where her husband is an instructor. The Rev. John Hanley Morgan of the First Unitarian church of Toronto, Ontario, will officiate. Her body was donated to the University of Michigan medical school.
Thanks so much Ginny A -- Caroline was a really sweet lady - kz