Submitted by: Ron Woodhull

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE: Tuesday, September 27, 1961, page 45

Funeral services for Mrs. Marie E. Chilson, 48, of 1113 Miner St, will be at 2 pm Friday in the Walsh-Bilancio Colonial Chapel 624 N. Notre Dame Ave., with Rev. August D. Stork, pastor of Lowell Heights Methodist Church, officiating.  Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park.  Friends may call after 7 pm today in the funeral home.  Mrs. Chilson died at 10:45 am Tuesday in St. Joseph Hospital after suffering a heart attack.  She was born in Midland, Mi, on Oct. 12, 1912 and had lived in South Bend 40 years, coming here from Midland.  She was married in 1938 in South Bend to Woodruff Chilson, who survives.  Also surviving are her mother, Mrs. Lillian Gershow of Berkley, Mich; a niece, Mrs. James Hammer of South Bend; five brothers, Henry, Howard, Arthur and Harold Clark all of Detriot, and Henry Thorton of Escanaba, Mich. and three sisters, Mrs. Hazel Gowne of Detriot and Mrs. Mrytle McLean and Mrs. Lottie Wenino, both of South Bend.