CHARLES EDWARD MITCHELL
20 YEAR COAST GUARD
The funeral service for
Charles Edward Mitchell, age 78, of Lewes was held Tuesday,
March 8, 1988, in Lewes
Presbyterian Church, where he was an Elder and Trustee. He had
died with a heart attack
the previous Friday. Interment was in the adjoining cemetery.
Mitchell had served 20
years in the Coast Guard at the Cape Henlopen and Lewes
Lifeboat Stations. He
belonged to the award winning Eastern District Rowing Team and
had won a bronze medal
in 1938 f or U. S. Coast Guard International Capsize
Championships..
After his coast Guard
service he was a service man with Pyrofax Gas Corporation ,
retiring
in 1973 after 20 years .
Mr. Mitchell was a
forty year member of Jefferson Lodge 15, AF&AM.
Surviving him is his wife
of 61 years, the former Ruth Cory Greenley, two daughters,
Evelyn M. Rogers, Lewes,
and Alcine Wilson of Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, his
brother Lewin W. Mitchell
of Rehoboth,, two sisters, Elizabeth Harper of Frankford,
and, Pearl Quillen,
Rehoboth Beach. He leaves three grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
Charles Edward Mitchell was
born 10 November 1909 in Sussex county, to Oliver Henry
and Eva Wilson Mitchell ,
married 28 Ocrober 1926 in Rehoboth to Ruth Cora Greenly.
He served his county from
1927 to 1947.
Abstract 5 February 2018,
by Harrison H., from Salisbury Daily Times, Monday,
March, 7, 1988.
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