Seymour Daily Tribune January 26, 2002 Chester Keith Modesitt Chester Keith Modesitt, 94, of West Bloomfield, Mich., and formerly of Brownstown, died Thursday, Jan. 24, 2002, at Regent Street of West Bloomfield Health Care Center. Mr. Modesitt graduated from Purdue University in 1931 with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree. He went into retail sales and was manager of a Kresge store in Hannibal, Mo. He became an assistant to a buyer in the Kresge Headquarters in Detroit. He was the central regional advertising manager for 125 Kresge stores in the Chicago office. He then moved to the Kmart International office in Troy, Mich., where he retired as administrative advertising manager in 1972. He worked for the Kresge-Kmart organization for 42 years. He had lived in the Seymour area since retirement. He was a member of Reddington Christian Church, where he served as a teacher, deacon, elder and choir member. He served on the steering committee for the Hoosier Christian Village nursing home in Brownstown, which was built in 1975. He was the first president and founder of the Seymour American Association of Retired Persons 4167, member and past president of Seymour Senior Citizens Inc., former Seymour Community Chorus member and member of the Friends of the Seymour Library. Born July 8, 1907, near Rockville, he was a son of George Walter and Bessie Guilliams Modesitt. On June 9, 1935, he married Lorene May, who preceded him in death. On Sept. 22, 1984, he married the Henrietta Montgomery Helt, who survives. Other survivors include a son, Donald Modesitt (wife Linda), Jefferson City, Mo.; a son, Kenneth Modesitt (wife Jan), Northville, Mich.; a daughter, Jan, Clarkston, Mich.; three grandsons; a granddaughter; a stepson, Scoville Helt (wife Dorothy), Seymour; a stepdaughter, Ramona Kleber, Scipio; four stepgrandsons; a stepgranddaughter; and several nieces and nephews.