Edmund J. Chartier

Feb. 15, 1926 - Aug. 24, 2007

SOUTH BEND - Edmund Joseph Chartier Sr., 81, of Bay Head, NJ, formerly of South Bend, died Friday, August 24, in Northfield, Illinois.

Edmund was a self-employed manufacturer's representative in the plastics industry his entire career.

He was born on February 15, 1926, in South Bend, to Harry J. and Catherine (Loughran) Chartier , who preceded him in death. Edmund lived in South Bend for 23 years and in New Jersey for the last 18 years.

He married Dorothy Ann Rule on May 1, 1954, in Metuchen, NJ, who survives along with a daughter, Michelle (Paul) Laughlin of Northfield, IL; two sons, Edmund Chartier Jr. of McHenry, IL, and Peter (Joyce) Chartier of Ingleside, IL; three grandchildren: Paul, Anne, and Erin Laughlin; a sister, Marion (William) Bickel of South Bend; and a brother, Alfred (Georgeann) Chartier of South Bend.

Two sisters, Virginia Krauss and Mary Grace Mecklenburg preceded him in death.

Edmund was president of Holy Name Society of Sacred Heart Parish, Bay Head, NJ, and a member of the Legion of Mary, Lector, Eucharistic Minister and choir member of the following parishes: Corpus Christi-South River, NJ, St. Bartholomew-East Brunswick, NJ, St. Thomas Becket-Mt. Prospect, IL, and most recently at Sacred Heart Parish, Bay Head, NJ.

Edmund graduated from John Adams High School, South Bend, and the University of Notre Dame, class of 1949, and was a World War II veteran serving with the Naval Air Corp.

Mass of Christian Burial will be at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, August 30, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the Notre Dame campus. Entombment will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Notre Dame. There will be no visitation.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Hospice, P.O. Box 1006 Skokie, IL 60076-8006

The HICKEY Funeral Home, South Bend, 574-289-1000, is in charge of arrangements.

04/09/2021 DEC