Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

SBT 8/27/2007

Surnames:  Bickel - Chartier – Krauss - Laughlin - Loughran – Mecklenburg – Rule

Cemetery:  Cedar Grove Cemetery

Military:  Naval Air Corp WWII veteran

Edmund J. Chartier Sr

February 15, 1926 – August 24, 2007

SOUTH BEND – Edmund Joseph Chartier Sr., 81, of Bay Head NJ, formerly of South Bend, died Friday, August 24, in Northfield IL.  Edmund was a self-employed manufacturer’s representative in the plastics industry his entire career.

He was born on February 15, 1926, in South Bend, to Harry J. and Catherine (Loughran) Chartier, who preceded him in death.  Edmund lived in South Bend for 23 years and in New Jersey for the last 18 years.  He married Dorothy Ann Rule on Mary 1, 1954, in Metuchen NJ, who survives along with a daughter, Michelle (Paul) Laughlin of Northfield IL, two sons, Edmund Chartier Jr of McHenry IL, and Peter (Joyce) Chartier of Ingleside IL; three grandchildren: Paul, Anne and Erin Laughlin; a sister, Marion (William) Bickel of South Bend; and a brother, Alfred (Georgeann) Chartier of South Bend.  Two sisters, Virginia Krauss and Mary Grace Mecklenburg preceded him in death.

Edmund was president of Holy Name Society of Sacred Heart Parish, Bay Head NJ, and a member of the Legion of Mary, Lector, Eucharistic Minister and choir member of the following parishes:  Corpus Christi, South River NJ; St Bartholomew, East Brunswick NJ; St Thomas Becket, Mt. Prospect IL; and most recently at Sacred Heart Parish, Bay Head NJ.  Edmund graduated from John Adams High School, South Bend, and the University of Notre Dame, class of 1949, and was a World War II veteran serving with the Naval Air Corp.

Mass of Christian Burial will be at 9:30am Thursday, August 30, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the Notre Dame campus.  Entombment will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Notre Dame.  There will be no visitation.  In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Hospice, PO Box 1006, Skokie IL 60076-8006.  The Hickey Funeral Home, South Bend 574-289-1000, is in charge of arrangements.