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Basil Jankowski
12/17/1999
A funeral Mass was celebrated Monday at St. Rita-St. Joseph Catholic Church for former Maple City resident Basil Jankowski, who died Dec. 17 at Leelanau Memorial Hospital. He was 86.
Mr. Jankowski was born in Manistee on Dec. 31, 1912, the son of Stephan and Leona (Skipski) Jankowski. In 1941, he married Winifred Nachazel, who survives.
He attended schools in Maple City and graduated with a degree in accounting from Ferris State University. He taught school in Kasson Township from 1932-1940, after which he became postmaster at the Maple City Post Office.
Mr. Jankowski was stationed at various locations in the Army during World War II. After the war he returned to work as Maple City postmaster and later as a rural route carrier until retiring in 1975. He was a member of the Cedar-Maple City Lions Club, Boy Scouts of America Council, Kasson Township Grange and St. Rita's Men's Club. He built beautiful furniture, and enjoyed fishing and traveling.
Also surviving are three sons, Jerome (Jean) of Iowa, he married Georganne Dunshee, who survives. The Dunshee family had summered in Leland, where the couple met, since 1898; the Channers since 1925.
A graduate of the University of Chicago, Mr. Channer worked for 50 years in the investment business. He was president of Channer Newman Securities Co., which specialized in underwriting and distributing municipal bonds. He was a charter member of the Inverness Golf Club, a member and former trustee of the Presbyterian Church of Barrington and president of the Palatine Safety Council. His hobbies were British history, golf, Victoriana and genealogy.
Also surviving are a daughter, Penelope; two sons, Christopher (Terri) and Kendall (Michele); two sisters, Constance Sturgis and Phyllis Beecher; and seven grandchildren.
Susan M. Hirschfield
3/27/2003
A memorial Mass was celebrated Monday at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Gills Pier for Susan M. Fischer Hirschfield who died March 27 at Munson Medical Center. She was 51.
Born in Detroit on June 28, 1951, she was the daughter of Stanley and Yvonne (Wittenberg) Fischer. On Nov. 3, 1973, at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, she married Charles Hirschfield, who survives.
A 1970 graduate of Grosse Point South High School, she lived in Harper New Hampshire. He was 83.
He was born in Cleveland, N.H.
In 1898, Mr. Malott’s grandparents, Morton and Anna Decker, were among the first families from Indianapolis, Ind., on Nov. 16, 1918, the daughter of William L. and Martha Jane (Blakeley) Caudell. In 1954, in Michigan State University Extension office in Lake Leelanau. She was a North Carolina; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Kilwy was also preceded in death by her brother Lester of Carmel, Ind., an infant sister at birth, and a great-grandchild.
Memorial contributions may be directed to World Hope for Children in Virginia or the Bayview Wesleyan Church of Traverse City.
Anna M. Wolf
1/5/2003
Anna M. Wolf of Wayne, a long-time summer resident of Northport, died Jan. 5 after a long illness.
A memorial service was held on Jan. 11. Mrs. Wolf is survived by three children, Joan, Herbert Jr. and Cheryl Wolf. She was preceded in death by her husband, Herbert Wolf Sr.
Sargent Karch
12/2/1999
A memorial service was held at St. Alban's Church in Ohio, the son of George F. and Mary Sargent Karch. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Washington, D.C.; a daughter, Lindsey of Boston; a brother, George F. Karch Jr. of Chardon, Ohio and Betsy Karch Wilson of Northport Point. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Susan Backus.
Memorials may be directed to the Leelanau Conservancy or the American Cancer Society.
