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Chester Lee “Chet” Jollay Sr.

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Chester Lee “Chet” Jollay Sr.

Birth
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA
Death
19 Dec 1982 (aged 85)
Coloma, Berrien County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Coloma, Berrien County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
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Chester JOLLAY married first, Maude (Bridgman) JOLLAY.

Chester JOLLAY married second, Mabell Laura (Lewis) WOLFF on April 3, 1976. He was 79 years old and she was 72 years old when they married.


Chester Jollay, Sr.

COLOMA - Chester L. Jollay Sr., 85, 275 Morrison St, Coloma, died Sunday at Community Hospital, Watervliet, following a long illness.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Davidson Chapel, Coloma, Florin Funeral Service, Coloma Masonic Lodge No. 162, of which he was a life member, will conduct rites. Burial and military rites, conducted by Coloma American Legion Post No. 362, will follow in Coloma Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Memorials may be made to the Coloma Emergency Ambulance Service or to the memorial fund of Coloma Congregational United Church of Christ, of which he was a member.

Mr. Jollay was born Feb. 25, 1897, in Knoxville, Tenn. He was a World War I rmy Medical Corps veteran and had been employed as a maintenance supervisor at Superior Steel Corp., Benton Harbor, before retiring in 1973.

Survivors include his wife, the former Mabel Wolff; three sons--Chester Jr. of Benton Harbor, Farris of Marion, Ohio, and James of Baton Rouge, La.; two stepchildren--Leroy Wolff of Lancaster, Calif., and Mrs. Wendell (Lois) Smith of Lawrence; two brothers--Ralph Jollay of Valdosta, Ga., and the Rev. Malcom Jollay of Lebanon, Tenn.; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. His first wife, the former Maude Bridgman, preceded him in death on Nov. 29, 1974.

--The Herald Palladium, Benton Harbor

Chester JOLLAY married first, Maude (Bridgman) JOLLAY.

Chester JOLLAY married second, Mabell Laura (Lewis) WOLFF on April 3, 1976. He was 79 years old and she was 72 years old when they married.


Chester Jollay, Sr.

COLOMA - Chester L. Jollay Sr., 85, 275 Morrison St, Coloma, died Sunday at Community Hospital, Watervliet, following a long illness.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Davidson Chapel, Coloma, Florin Funeral Service, Coloma Masonic Lodge No. 162, of which he was a life member, will conduct rites. Burial and military rites, conducted by Coloma American Legion Post No. 362, will follow in Coloma Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Memorials may be made to the Coloma Emergency Ambulance Service or to the memorial fund of Coloma Congregational United Church of Christ, of which he was a member.

Mr. Jollay was born Feb. 25, 1897, in Knoxville, Tenn. He was a World War I rmy Medical Corps veteran and had been employed as a maintenance supervisor at Superior Steel Corp., Benton Harbor, before retiring in 1973.

Survivors include his wife, the former Mabel Wolff; three sons--Chester Jr. of Benton Harbor, Farris of Marion, Ohio, and James of Baton Rouge, La.; two stepchildren--Leroy Wolff of Lancaster, Calif., and Mrs. Wendell (Lois) Smith of Lawrence; two brothers--Ralph Jollay of Valdosta, Ga., and the Rev. Malcom Jollay of Lebanon, Tenn.; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. His first wife, the former Maude Bridgman, preceded him in death on Nov. 29, 1974.

--The Herald Palladium, Benton Harbor



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