Submitted by: Dan Rich

Chester Clemans

Aug. 1, 1924 - Aug. 8, 1995

South Bend Tribune 8/9/1995

SOUTH BEND - Chester Clemans, 71, of Roosevelt Road, died at 9:48 a.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph Hospital, Mishawaka. Mr. Clemans retired in 1989 from Raitt Corp. as manager of properties. He was born Aug. 1, 1924, in Mishawaka.

On Jan. 2, 1944, in South Bend, he married Naomi O. Cherryholmes. She survives with three daughters, Phyllis Kaetzer and Susan Henderson, both of South Bend, and Patricia Baba of White Pigeon; six grandchildren; and a sister, Elizabeth Freed of Mishawaka. He was a charter member and former secretary of Centre Township Lions Club, receiving their Lion of the Year Award six times; was a member of Robin Hood Men's Golf Club; Lions International, receiving their Melvin Jones Fellowship and Presidential Award; and South Bend Transportation Club, receiving their Pioneer Award. He was an Army veteran of World War II.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Guisinger Colonial Chapel Funeral Home. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Lions Club Eye Bank.