The Mt. Pleasant News, Monday, 15 January 1945, page 2

John Chandler Funeral Held

The memorial service for John Chandler was held Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the Cookes Funeral Home. Dr. Geo. G. Hunt of the First Methodist church was the officiating minister. A male quartet consisting of Willis Mathews, Howard Mathews, Warren Mathews and Fred Mathews, sang, accompanied on the organ by Mrs. Grace Keller of Danville. Mrs. Dan Winter played quiet funeral music before and after the service. Pallbearers were Lloyd Crocker, Milo Mathews, Gail Mathews, Glen Chandler, Charles Bailey and Chalmer Boyer. Burial was in the Trinity cemetery.

John Chandler, son of James and Lucetta Miller Chandler, was born October 27, 1874, in Henry County near Lowell, and passed from this life Wednesday morning, January 10, 1946, in Mt. Pleasant, after thirteen years of illness, which became acute a month ago.

He received his early education in the public schools of his native community and Howe's Academy in Mt. Pleasant.

On January 30, 1900, he married Miss Effa Mathews. For four years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Chandler lived on a farm near Bloomfield. For the next fourteen years, they lived on the Mathews homestead in Canaan township. Following the death of Mr. Mathews, they purchased a farm in the Danville community, where they resided until coming to Mt. Pleasant five years ago.

Mr. Chandler is survived by his wife, Mrs. Effa Chandler of Mt. Pleasant; his daughter, Mrs. Virgil Hileman of Mt. Pleasant; four brothers, Frank, James and William of Danville, and Everett of Cedar Rapids; two sisters, Mrs. Ora White of Mt. Pleasant, and Mrs. Mayme Kelly of Ames.

He was a member of the Methodist church in Danville. Always kind to his family and busy at worthy tasks, he particularly manifested the Christian quality of his character in his patience, cheerfulness and optimism during the thirteen years of illness.