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Charles W. Austin

FLAT ROCK — Charles W.
Austin, 80, of Flat Rock died at
2:40 p.m. Monday in Seaway
Hospital, Trenton. He had been in
poor health for years and critical-
ly ill for the past week.

Friends may call from 12:30 to 9
p.m. Thursday in Arthur Bobcean
Funeral Home, where services
will be held at 11 a.m. Friday with
the Rev. Evans Bentley of First
United Methodist Church, of
which he was a member, officiat-
ing. He will be cremated and the
cremains will be buried in Michi-
gan Memorial Park.

Born Dec. 29, 1916, in
Northville, he was the son of
Harry and Minnie (Rattenberry)
Austin. He married Kaye Lapham
on Jan. 31, 1943, in First United

 

Methodist Church and had lived in |

Flat Rock since 1945.

He was employed as a laborer |
for MERK (Calgon), Rockwood, |

for 15 years, retiring in 1971.

He was a member of the Mid- |

 

west Mineralogical Society and |
Lapidary Society, both of Dear- |

born; the Chippers Club of Allen
Park; the Wolverine Boy Scout
Council of America, and was a
scoutmaster for Troop III for 30
years.

He enjoyed yard work and often
helped others with yard mainte-
nance.

Surviving are his wife; a sister,
Vena Sperry of Allen Park, and
two grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a
son, William; a brother, Harold,
and four sisters, Vivian Graham,
Hazel Long, Jessie Talbott and
Vina Smith.