Submitted by: Dan Rich

Carol Chikar

Dec. 3, 1943 - March 31, 2002

South Bend Tribune 4/3/2002

Carol Chikar, 58, of Vistula Road, Osceola, Ind., passed away in her home at 3:05 p.m. Sunday, March 31, after a lengthy battle with cancer. Carol was born in Mishawaka on Dec. 3, 1943, to the late Alphons A. and Irene C. (Burggraf) Lippens.

On July 29, 1967, in St. Monica Church, Mishawaka, Ind., Carol married Joseph Chikar, who survives. She is also survived by a daughter, Amy Irene Chikar of Osceola; a son, Joseph Jared Chikar of Mishawaka; a sister, Barbara Sayers of Hudson, Ohio; and by a brother, Ronald C. Lippens of Mishawaka.

Teaching for the past 27 years, Carol spent the last 15-plus years in the Fairfield Community School Corporation where she served as an art teacher for grades 1 through 6, mainly at the Millersburg and New Paris schools. Carol graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington where she also received her master's degree in art education. She was a member of Queen of Peace Catholic Church and the South Bend Art Center where she continued to take art classes. Carol loved to cook, read, work with ceramics, jewelry, and sew, specializing in making quilts. She loved all aspects of the outdoors including fishing, camping and nature in general. Her favorite charity through the years had been the Homeless Center in South Bend.

Visitation will be from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, in the Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home, Mishawaka, where a wake service will be held at 4 p.m. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Friday, April 5, in Queen of Peace Church, Mishawaka, with Fr. Elden Miller officiating.