Charles Hawk Obituary

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Muncie Evening Press

Muncie, IN, United States
p. 18, col. 2


Charles E. Hawk, 80,

Dies in Michigan

 

Charles E. Hawk, 80, former widely-known Muncie man, died Tuesday at the Bronson Hospital at Kalamazoo, Mich., after an extended illness. Services will be held at the Walnut St. Baptist Church at 2 p.m. Friday. Interment will follow in the family lot at Beech Grove Cemetery,

Friends may call at the Meeks Mortuary after 3 p.m. Thursday, or at the church one hour before the service.

Mr. Hawk was born in Muncie and lived here until 1947. At that time he left to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. Merlin Cox, at Gravel Lake, Mich., near Lawton, Mich. He retired about six years ago after being employed by the Hemingray Glass Co. and the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. for more than 50 years. He was a. member of the Walnut St. Church and the Masonic Lodge of Muncie.

His only survivor is the daughter. Mrs. Hawk died in 1943, and a son, Kenneth Hawk, died in an Army camp during World War I.


Keywords:Hemingray
Researcher notes: 
Supplemental information:Article: 12991
Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:January 12, 2012 by: Bob Stahr;