Notes for Frederick Earl Champaigne: First wife was Myrtle Sperry Dec 30, 1899. He was Catholic (and an alter boy) and was excommunicated from church due to his divorce from Myrtle.
Lived at Rochester, MN for a time, played with Mayo brothers, owned an electric car, was electrical inspector for city of South Bend, In . Buried in Riverview cemetery South Bend, In Funeral Notes: Pallbearers for Fred Earl Champaigne, 719 West Lasalle Avenue for whom funeral services will be conducted at 2 PM Friday in The Orvis funeral home, will be Dell Shely, Howard MacCorkle, Howard Akin, Paul LaMar, Rogert Shirk and M.G. Simmons. Honorary pallbearers will be Delbert Beckley, Gust Miller, Lou Nelson and Ares Nolke. Members of Portage Lodge No. 45 F&AM will conduct grave side services in Riverview cemetery. Friends may call in the funeral home. Mr Champaigne was the city electrical inspector during the last 23 years.
F. E. Champaigne Dies at Age 69 Fred Earl Champaigne, aged 69, city electrical inspector the last 23 years, died at 11 PM Tuesday in his residence, 719 West Lasalle Avenue. He was ill one year with a heart ailment. Born in Plainview, Minn Sept 9, 1880, he came here 60 years ago. In 1903 in South Bend he married Marie Frank, who survives. Other survivors are three children, Fred R. , Jack Roe and Mrs. Betty Hildebrand, all of South Bend. Friends may call in the Orvis funeral home after 7 PM today until funeral services there at 2 PM Friday. Rev. Robert M Selle, D.S. , pastor of St. Pauls's Memorial Methodist church, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverview cemetery. He was a member of St. Joseph Lodge No.. 45 F. & A. M. ; the Ancient and Accepted Scottish rites, Valley of South Bend; Orak temple, Hammond Ind.; South Bend Shrine club, and Mummers guild of South Bend consistory.
Betty Champaigne Hildebrand English IV Theme Central High school South Bend In (graduated in 1940)
One Sunday evening I cornered one of the finest and most lovable men I have ever known, and we sat down to hear the story of his life. In the following lines I will endeavor to tell you the many interesting experiences of his life. In the small town of Plainview, Minnesota, about twenty-five miles north of the now famous Rochester, Minnesota, was born a small baby boy, whose name was Frederick. This was in the year of 1880, near the time when Minnesota was so frequently visited by cyclones. When this boy was one year old he moved with his parents to Rochester, Minnesota. During the first seven years of his life, because his father was a railroad man, they lived in a great many different cities. Moving from Rochester to Winona, then to New Ulm, Minnesota, where he was obliged to attend German School, as nearly all the inhabitants were German. While Frederick lived in Minnesota, he witnessed many cyclones. HE told me of one in particular. While on the way to a picnic with some other children, a cyclone came up. They all rushed into the church to escape injury. Just as they ran to the back of the church, the belfry crashed through the top of the building. That was a narrow escape!. The wind was so strong that it rolled huge sections of the railroad track into large hoops. This cyclone demolished nearly half of the city of Rochester. In December, 1887, Frederick and his parents were planning to go to South Bend, but were snowbound in Watertown, South Dakota for about seven weeks. A bell rope had to be stretched from the train, across the street to the hotel, so the passengers could hang on and guide themselves across. One man let go of the rope and wasn't seen again until the ten feet of snow thawed. After Fred arrived in South Bend, he attended the Coquillard School, and later the old Washinton High. When he finished his school education, he started to work as a garment cutter for A. E. Staly Wollen co. but being desirous of becoming and electrician, he went to work for Central Electric Company, which at that time was the leading company in South Bend. After working there for nine or ten years, he went to the University of Notre Dame, a electrician. In 1903 he was married to Marie Frank. In 1911 he entered the engineering department of the George Cutter Co, which shortly after was taken over by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. During World War he acted as inspector of war goods manufactured by the Westinghouse Company., He remained with that company for nine years. On February 22, 1936 he resigned to become City Electrician for the city of South Bend and still employed there. By this time you will have probably guessed who he is and I am proud to say, "That's my pop".
More About Frederick Earl Champaigne and Myrtle Sperry: Marriage: 30 Dec 1899
More About Frederick Earl Champaigne and Marie Frank: Marriage: 27 May 1903, South Bend, Indiana.
Children of Frederick Earl Champaigne and Marie Frank are:
Frederick Earl Champaigne (b. 09 Sep 1880, d. 13 Apr 1950)
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