Whitaker - Charles Lawson
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, December 17, 1969
Charles Lawson Whitaker, 62, of Detroit, formerly of Montgomery County, died Monday morning in Ford Hospital at Detroit. Born June 26, 1907 near Waynetown, he was a son of Ora and Ossie Swank Whitaker. He attended elementary school in Waynetown and was a graduate of Crawfordsville High School. Mr. Whitaker went to Detroit in 1927 and had lived there since. In 1929 he was married there to Beulah Walls of Crawfordsville. He was a retired theater manager. Surviving are his wife; his mother of Hillsboro; two brothers, Bill Whitaker of Zionsville and Herman Whitaker of Waynetown; two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Mattingly and Mrs. Edith McDonald of Crawfordsville, and nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. today at Grosse Point, Mich., with graveside rites at 3 p.m. Thursday at Ridgefarm, Ill. – jlr