Chester W. Cleveland  

Chester Wilson Cleveland was born in Plymouth on Aug. 11, 1898 Death Oct. 23. 1961 Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana Burial Oak Hill Cemetery. Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana son of Arnott Morrill Cleveland and Laura Dell Groshans

Chester W. Cleveland, Citizen Editor and Publisher, Dies



Chester W. Cleveland, 63, editor and publisher of this newspaper, The Culver Citizen, died at one o'clock Monday morning, Oct. 23. He had been a critical heart patient since early last Wednesday morning at the Parkview Hospital in Plymouth.



Mr. Cleveland purchased The Culver Press and The Citizen from Robert Rust in 1953. His greatest dream was realized when he launched a new mondily magazine, Indiana Business and Industry, in June of 1957. Blending his great love for his native Hoosierland, an unbelievable zest for work and gifted creativeness, his publication has received growing acclaim since its conception

Chester Wilson Cleveland was born in Plymouth on Aug. 11, 1898, the younger son of the late Arnott M. and Laura Dell (Groshans) Cleveland. Graduating from Plymouth High School in 1916, he journeyed to the University of Illinois where he majored in journalism and served as managing editor of the Daily Illini in 1920. In 1921, he graduated from Babson Institute of Business Administration at Wellesley Hills, Mass.

On Oct. 6, 1923, Mr. Cleveland married Ruth Iona Glass of Fort Wayne, and has two married sons, John A. of Culver and David B. of Kansas City.

A Life Of Words

Mr. Cleveland spent his entire life in the newspaper, magazine and public relations fields, starting as a cub reporter on the Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle in the summer of 1918. It is coincidental that he and Mrs. Cleveland had just visited his newspaper career starting place while on a vacation to Mackinac Island in September.

Mr. Cleveland was a member of many national, state, social, fraternal, and business organizations. He was a communicant of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, American Legion member, 32-degree Mason, Knight Templar and a Shriner. He was a member of the Indianapolis and Chicago Press Clubs, Sigma Delta Chi national journalistic fraternity & editor of The Quill, 1922-25), and vice-president of the Hoosier Salon Patrons Association of Indianapolis. One of his favorite organizations was the Indiana Society of Chicago which he revived in 1937.

Survivors, in addition to his wife and two sons, are his mother, Mrs. Arnott M. Cleveland, his sister, Mrs. Philip R. Melangton, both of Plymouth, and three grandchildren, Peter, Leslie and Suzanne Cleveland, all of Culver .

Services Today

Funeral services will be held today, Wednesday, at 2:30 p.m. at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Plymouth with the Rev. William C. R. Sheridan and Allen Bray, chaplain of the Culver Military Academy, officiating. Interment will be at the Oak Hill Cemetery.

The Easterday Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

The Culver Press, Inc. will be, closed Wednesday afternoon in tribute to a swell boss. Oct 25, 1961 Culver citizen

married Oct. 6, 1923 6 Oct 1923 Allen, county Indiana Ruth Iona Glass BIRTH 21 NOV 1900 Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana DEATH 4 MAR 1994 Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana BURIAL Oak Hill Cemetery Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana daughter of Charles Elmer Glass and Alma Creola Lawrence Children:

John Cleveland

David Balfour Cleveland Birth 22 Feb 1933 Evanston, Cook, Illinois Death 6 Dec 2011 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana BURIAL Union Chapel Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana married 1st Teresa Hoffman Cleveland BIRTH 24 Oct 1934 Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri DEATH 20 Jan 1963 Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri BURIAL Mount Hope Cemetery Enterprise, Dickinson County, Kansas, daughter of Arthur Herman Hoffman and Altha Teresa Goodwyn
Mrs David B. Cleveland

Mrs. Teresa HOffman Cleveland, 28, of 7043 Linden street, Prairie Village, died of Hodgkin's disease yeasterday at St. Luke's Hospital.

She was born in St. Louis and lived in Wichita before she moved here six years ago.

Mrs. Cleveland was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal church and vice-president of the Grace Trippe guild at the church

She was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1956 and taught at the Tomahawk school, 6301 West Seventy-eight, Overland Park, for three years.

Surviving are her husband, David B. Cleveland of the home; a brother Arthur G. Hoffman, Wichita; a sister Mrs Anna Jane Hunner, Naples, Ital; and her mother Mrs. A. H. Hoffman, Wichita.

Services will be held at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday at the church.

Burial in the Mount Hope cemetery, Enterprise, Kas.

The family requests no flowers and suggest gifts to the St. Luke's Hospital research and education fund or the church's Book of Golden Memories.
David married 2nd Patricia Carroll Wilson.

See the Cleveland Familyalso. They owned the home at 1394 East Shore Dr.

Indiana, U.S., Marriages, 1810-2001 
Name	Ruth Iona Glass	
Birth	21 Nov 1900 Plymouth, Indiana	
Marriage	6 Oct 1923 Allen, Indiana, United States 
Residence	Fort Wayne, Indiana	 
Spouse	Chester W Cleveland	
Father	Charles E Glass 
Mother	Alma Lawrence 

Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017 
Name	Chester Wilson Cleveland
Gender	Male
Race	White
Age	63
Marital Status	Married
Birth Date	11 Aug 1898
Birth Place	Plymouth, Indiana
Death Date	23 Oct 1961
Death Place	Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, USA
Death Registration Date	1961
Father	 Arnott Morrill Cleveland
Mother	 Laura Dell Groshans

Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017 
Name	Ruth G Cleveland [Ruth G Glass]
Gender	Female
Race	White
Age	93
Marital Status	Widowed
Birth Date	21 Nov 1900
Birth Place	Plymouth, Indiana
Death Date	4 Mar 1994
Death Place	Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, USA
Death Registration Date	1994
Father Charles E Glass
Mother Alma Lawrence